Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John the Divine has been a long time agrowing. Already some $16,000,000 and 52 years of labor have gone into it-and it is still only two-thirds built. Last week the Right Rev. William Thomas Manning, 79, Episcopal Bishop of New York, whose pride & joy the Cathedral is, proposed to finish it. He asked cathedral-goers for $10,000,000 more to do the job. With that amount the job might be done in six years...
Despite lack of money, life in that plain farm home was good: "There on that farm I lost all fear of poverty. I learned to live most simply, and I learned to get a great joy out of work. It never occurred to me in those years that the lack of money was of any consequence. I grew up to believe wholly and completely in men and women who lived simply, frugally, and in fine faith. I learned that fear was inspired in men and women who could not reconcile themselves to the possibility that hardship and sacrifice might confront...
...Robert Ley, leader of Hitler's Labor Front and "Strength Through Joy" movement, turned up in a four-day beard, blue pajamas, a green hat. Found in an Austrian home, where he had put up as "Dr. Ernst Distelmeyer," joyless, strengthless Dr. Ley relinquished a vial of poison and told his U.S. captors: "I will always believe that Adolf Hitler was Germany's greatest man. ... I did everything I could for Germany. ... I think work is beautiful. . . . Life doesn't mean a damned thing to me. You can beat me; you can torture...
...getters go mad with civic joy. A general and reporters and newsreel cameramen will arrive the next day; their town is on the national map and the profits, they believe, can be enormous. They whip up banners on which Benny's name appears much smaller than that of his birthplace. But they can't find Benny's family, to receive the medal and act as peg for the exploitation...
While in occasional scenes "A Royal Scandal" reaches a pinnacle of Hollywood humor, those who take no great joy in such oft repeated lines as Miss Bankhead's snappy "Shut up!" will find more of tedium in it than delight...