Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn Manhattan into an Isle of joy-Rodgers & Hart...
...Revolution of 1830 momentarily interrupted his dramatic career. Dumas was about to start south with his latest mistress when news that street fighting had begun in Paris filled him with joy. He volunteered to go to Soissons, seize some badly needed powder. The commander of the arsenal, a former colonial officer, at first refused to surrender to the kinky-haired playwright. But the officer's wife cried: "Oh, my darling, yield! This is another revolt of the Negroes!" Dumas brought back the powder to Paris, was embraced by Lafayette and the Duke of Orleans, who said: "M. Dumas...
...coup had jangled the alarms in every "Good Neighbor" capital. Only from Argentina, whose authoritarian Government is busily cultivating an anti-U.S. bloc, came published approval. Buenos Aires' pro-Government newspaper El Cabildo could not "disguise our joy" at the revolt, "which had not surprised us. . . . We had expected it." The great democratic papers of Argentina, La Prensa and La Nation did not rejoice. The U.S. State Department, caught with its striped pants down, reserved comment until it could belatedly discover what elements were behind the revolt...
...some it was a joy; some rolled in new wealth, splashed happily among unaccustomed delights. For many more it was plain tragedy; starvation was an ever-present possibility. The bank clerk, fingering his last western suit and wondering how many thousands of Chinese dollars he could get for it, was little better off than the university professor wondering whether he should abandon his career, with its paltry fixed salary, for a bank clerk's job where at least there was some attempt to hoist wages as the cost of living soared. In this atmosphere, U.S. Army men in China...
...miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls so big that you could a-throwed a cat betwix them without tetching a hair." Emmy's parents were hillbilly sharecroppers. She was christened Joy May Creasy. Says she: "I started strippin' tobakker when I was eight, I reckon. Summers I chopped out corn and wormed and suckered tobakker. I reckon I allus wuz a show-off." Joy May's schooling lasted two weeks...