Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...startled when the comely faces of Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth were snatched off the screen and a portrait of the late great Dr. Sun Yat-sen appeared. After a bewildered moment, the audience applauded. When the face of Chiang Kai-shek appeared, the Chinese went wild with joy. Next, Puppet Wang. No go. Boos and hisses...
...climax of joy is not when you're through a new symphony, but when you are hoarse from shouting, with your hands stinging from clapping, your lips parched, and you sip your second glass of beer after you've fought for it with 90,000 other spectators to celebrate the victory of your favorite team...
...rugmaker one day reprimanded his infant son for playing recklessly among his dye pots. The child, incensed, brought down his dripping little fist on a nearby rug. Regarding the curly imprint of the tot's clenched hand, the artist gave the Persian version of a cry of joy...
...opera for $822 next season. The box seats eight people and is good for ten performances. This announcement by the San Francisco Opera Company may not trumpet tidings of great joy to U.S. operagoers, but it shows the way the wind is blowing. Opera, most class-conscious and costly of the arts, is out to woo the musical masses, and, like a condescending dowager, is doing it rather badly. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will cut the price of next season's orchestra seats (for its subcribers) from $6.50 to $5. The lower-priced Chicago Opera whittled the price...
...Cadena last week was the realization of a dream. It was also something of a financial nightmare. Operating at an estimated annual cost of $800,000, the network is entirely noncommercial, probably will sell no advertising until export business revives after the war. CBS profits are purely in pride & joy...