Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard and emaciated as the result of a near fatal plane crash, can hardly fail to call up visions...
That was enough for the summer-becalmed tabloids. They sailed into the story with shrieks of joy and thankful indignation. They were sure they saw squads of scantily clad models, actresses and whatnots, running in & out of New York and Hollywood bars, house parties, nightclubs, swimming pools, hotels-hotly pursued by grinning generals and Government administrators. Was this any way for generals to behave...
...last fortnight Dr. Colbert and his assistant George Whitaker were exploring Arroyo Yeso, a gypsum gulch on Ghost Ranch, near Abiquin, N. Mex. Suddenly Whitaker uttered a cry of joy, rushed to the bank and pointed triumphantly to a small fossil claw. Dr. Colbert had got his coelophysis...
...happiness, two kinds of love. And freedom doesn't count before love. . . . You'll never be richer or freer than in divesting yourselves of your selves. If you give only half your life, the other half will be resentful and its reproaches will rob you of joy. . . . Why worry about those who consume us? The vine and the corn do not refuse themselves to the unworthy. . . . Be a sacrifice in the universal sacrifice . . . come to Love . . . Love is strong enough to save the world...
...xenophobed with joy...