Word: joyously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Johnson had declared a truce on verbal bombing for the duration of hostilities: "I am going to be ... careful ... to abstain from too many joyous wisecracks and in my small way hold up the hands of every person in public life who is trying ... to keep us out of war. ..." A few days later he forgot his resolutions when (in a column favoring censorship for radio) Dorothy Thompson wrote: "Do we want to hear General Johnson presented as a military expert and . . . make remarkable (and most inaccurate) statements about why we entered the last...
Last winter, after twelve barren years, frail Mrs. Howard Albert Jackson of Manhattan bore her proud husband a baby girl. For two months the joyous Jacksons showed off little Alice to their admiring friends. Then suddenly they noticed that her head was swelling like a little balloon. The tender fontanel at the top of her head was tense and bulging, and thick blue veins stood out like cords underneath her downy hair. The doctor shook his head, told them that the baby had hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and, like 2,000 other hydrocephalic children born...
...happenings to which they rightfully belong, and their meaning thus felt. To the seniors, the Class of '39, who march from Holworthy to the Sever Quadrangle this morning, four years are expressed only in the alternate silence and laughter flowing through the line. To-day they are singularly joyous at a climax of good humor, for tomorrow they break up to be reabsorbed in the currents of the world...
Melville in the South Seas, the result of six years' sleuthing by a Duke University professor, is a 522-page argument that Melville's books are far from autobiographical, that Melville's South Seas period (1841-1845)-source of his most lasting books-was far more joyous than he later made out. Melville's turn to allegory, he says, was a literary mistake, aided and abetted by Boston and Manhattan intellectuals. Hawthorne, who used to lie in the hay talking with Melville about time and destiny, characterized Melville's metaphysics as enough to "compel...
Pick-a-Rib (Victor). Benny Goodman's Quartet, plus Johnny Kirby on the doghouse fiddle, covering two sides with a joyous boogie-woogie...