Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...source of special joy to Thomas is a 155-pounder in the person of Sandy Jones, twice state champion from Oklahome, where wrestling is a main sport all year around. Both Thomas and Varsity Coach Chief Boston agree that, "Jones is the best Freshman wrestler we've had around here in ten years...
...marked by arty borrowings from the jargons of pseudo science and verse mannerisms ("the vowelled beeches," "the neural meaning," "the scurry of chemic blood"); in others, sense and emotion itself become lost in a game with words. But where Thomas is inspired by nothing more complicated than plain joy or direct recognition of beauty, his verse has a clear and bouncing simplicity-as in his picture of summer on a Welsh farm...
Anemic Liberty was so flushed with joy that it added a front cover on trains, considered the first-rate catalogue a better draw than its fiction. Cried a Liberty executive: "With kids and their dads crying their eyes out for trains, that catalogue made a real come-on proposition...
...Schlumbohm's pride & joy is Chemex, a glass coffeemaker that looks like an angular hourglass. Dr. Schlumbohm, who drinks six cups of coffee a day, invented it because he was sick of bad coffee. Said he: "With this, even a moron can make good coffee...
...long silence of worship which began the Meeting, Quaker Patriarch Rufus M. Jones, 83, rose to utter words which must have echoed in the meditations of the many who heard him: "I am thrilled with a sense of joy at something triumphant that has happened toward the end of my long life. . . . My heart is filled with thanksgiving and high rejoicing that we are met as we have met, completely in one spirit, under one Father, as brothers and sisters...