Word: joy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dawn their troops were on the march. Ahead of the columns flew battle planes, zooming and thundering over Buenos Aires, raining down leaflets. One plane dived low over Argentina's Casa Rosada ("Pink House"), peppering the Executive Mansion with machine gun bullets. Frantic crowds snatched the bulletins with joy, read an exhortation to "rise" signed "Military Junta." They rose...
Their battle practically won, the flyers found little thrill in the flight down the coast until the outlines of Long Island crept over the horizon. Then came the full joy of triumph. They landed at Curtiss-Wright Airport, first to make the flight that had cost the lives of ten before them, beginning with their countrymen Charles Nungesser and François Coli. Among the first to congratulate Coste & Bellonte in the wild crowd of 10,000 that swept over the field and stormed their hangar refuge was Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...which flourished or failed as her emotional life varied. When Jonkheer Nico returned, however, and saw her in an ingenue part, her seeming innocence recaptured him. Once more he tried to bridge the social gap between them. He had broadened while abroad and might have been successful, but the joy of acting had so gripped Jenny's introvertive nature that she could not fight herself free from theatricality. For many difficult months she played to him, consciously and unconsciously, to hide her hardness. She even deserted the stage and sought to fit herself into his circumscribed, stiff circle. But memory...
Staidly, solemnly written, this book is impressive. Jenny, whose entry into stage life is told in The House of Joy, develops into a clear character, engaging yet unpleasant, selfish, pathetic in her talents and her indecision. Nico through his consistency attains a sort of prosaic greatness. The main worth of the book, however, is the contrast between two splendidly portrayed environments: the Dutch home, the Dutch stage. The conflict is a familiar theme but the detailed, vigorous painting of the scenes transforms the commonplace material...
...director of the Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House of Joy, The Rebel Generation...