Word: joyousness
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...fireman's job is not the joyous round of pinochle games, maiden rescuing, and whizzing through streets that ordinary citizens, when forced to the side of the road, are wont to claim. He must answer calls in the most miserable weather, and if his beat happens to be Harvard, or another college, he can be sure that he faces heckling, flashbulbs in the face, and an agonizing spurt of low humor begun by the question, "Hey, why do you wear red suspenders...
...huge, $250,000 Fountain of Faith for the National Memorial Park cemetery which he has been shaping for twelve years (TIME, July 19, 1948). Milles has made it his own idea of heaven, has done each of the 38 figures with a loving hand; magnificently supple men & women, joyous children playing games, a family bowed in prayer, an old philosopher, two lovely sisters, a father with his son and daughter. Among the figures are bronze flowers, bugs, dogs and a fat, barnyard goose. The whole group stands in a polished, dark granite pool, each statue set on a slender stalk...
...Homecoming. Laden with heads and new names, the canoes start down the river. Now there is singing and laughing, for this is a joyous occasion. But the warriors begin to weep when they first see their homes and think of the sad little children who have not yet got names...
...helped Hecht to found the Chicago Literary Times, an irreverent journal that described Chicago as "the jazz baby-the reeking, cinder-ridden, joyous Baptist stronghold . . . the chewing-gum center of the world, the bleating, slant-headed rendezvous of half-witted newspapers, sociopaths and pants makers." He headed east to Greenwich Village in the 1920s...
...Joyous Boom. Too excited to stand on ceremony, Egypt's King picked up a telephone himself to break the good news to the Prime Minister. "On this blessed day," proclaimed the national radio a few minutes later, "when the sun of smiling hope arose and the most shining diamond in the Crown of the Nile Valley lighted, the Royal Cabinet announces the birth of Prince Ahmed Fuad...