Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attending a girls' boarding school, Claudine is obsessed by a jealously possessive love for one of her women teachers. At the most trivial provocation she flings herself from hysterical joy into psychopathic outbursts of grief. That these are the natural symptons of budding love, is pounded into the wincing spectator with morbid persistence...
...lectures were established in 1898 by Nanee Yulee Noble in the "hope of arousing in young men the joy of service for Christ and humanity, especially in the ministry of the Christian Church." Professor Latourette will deliver five public lectures on some religious subject...
Last week Germany's economic planners dishedup a heaping spoonful of disappointment to the ever hopeful German people. Just as the Strength Through Joy automobile, for which Germanshad paid installments for nearly two years against indefinite future delivery, was junked in favor of the less joyful tank and airplane, so last week was scrapped a grandiose plan for old-age pensions. Adolf Hitler gave Dr. Robert Ley, head of the Labor Front, administration of the pension plan as a present on Dr. Ley's 50th birthday last February. Last week Dr. Ley let it be known that...
Mademoiselle's phenomenal success brought no joy to Desmond Hall, because Desmond Hall resigned three years ago. The editor who raised Mademoiselle up from an awkward miss in pigtails is a dark-haired, well-groomed woman not yet 35: Betsy Talbot Blackwell...
...last week Benito Mussolini was a thoroughly disillusioned warrior. The first step in the process of his disappointment was the frenzied joy with which Italians greeted him back from Munich-a far more spontaneous ovation than any military triumph had ever earned him. On the Piazza Venezia balcony that day he made no martial speech, but said only: "You wanted peace. I have brought you peace," then turned gloomily and went indoors. Next came the German-Russian Pact, which he was not told about until the last minute and which at one slap put down any extravagant hopes Il Duce...