Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts of Corbett's life are allowed to interfere only slightly in Pugilist Flynn's career, but fans will not complain. They can see oldtime titans destroy each other with bare knuckles in gaslit, neolithic exhibitions of carnage-under-contract. Gentleman Jim's footwork is a joy to behold (and is beheld from all camera angles). The pictured versions of his classic bouts with Joe Choynski, Jake Kilrain, et al. seem, to modern eyes, even to improve on the originals...
...article written for the CRIMSON, March 15, 1937, by Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History, greeted to the newcomer among Harvard publications. "Those whose joy is discerning trends will find the Harvard Guardian a portent. Here planned and carried out by undergraduate initiative, is a new periodical devoted wholly to work done in History, Government and Economics. . . It is hoped that the Guardian will survive, for its first number is most encouraging...
Morize expressed great joy at the invasion of Africa, calling it "the first decisive step toward victory," and towards the liberation of his country. But looking at the general aspects of the military situation, he stated that much of the hardest part of the fight is ahead...
...Russo-Japanese nonaggression and neutrality pact was a diplomatic trump for the Kremlin-a way "to impress the Germans," says Author Scott. Stalin and Molotov went personally to the Moscow station to say farewell to the Jap signers. This joy had been celebrated in too much vodka. "Stalin went up to the aged and diminutive Japanese Ambassador General, punched him rather hard on the shoulder with an 'ah ... ha'. . . . The Japanese Military Attache staggered up to the dapper and fastidious . . . Soviet Chief of Protocol and slapped him on the back. Matsuoka got the giggles and thought that...
...Fair at Sorochinsk, a rollicking opus by Russia's rum-nosed Immortal, Modeste Moussorgsky. Eighty-year-old Composer Damrosch conducted his curtain raiser without drowning out the audience's spirited conversation. But for The Fair at Sorochinsk, they sat up, shut up and pounded their palms with joy...