Walker rejoiced – this was the scheme he had long supported as the solution to the burial problem.
I can see why a woman might wish to change her name in order to leave certain aspects of her past behind; why she might, after seeing her husband's displeasure at the idea of her keeping her name, opt for an easy life; and why, for instance, in 1924 a certain Emily Smellie might have rejoiced to change her name to Emily Hall.
While they rejoiced, their opponents dragged themselves from the turf in utter disbelief, the west London divide gaping wider than ever.
Inevitably, there will be those who object to the T-pylon, who will want to romanticise the traditional design as an emblem of a century that has rejoiced in access to electricity.
Her fellow activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote: "Nothing has been done in the woman's rights movement for some time that has so rejoiced my heart as the announcement by you of a woman's right to her name.
It was derivative of US rap culture, but it had an unmistakable, British sound; although it rejoiced in the transgressions of the world it came out of, it also expressed its problems.
Most Iraqis rejoiced in the toppling of Saddam.
Last month, when Mrs Albright decided to waive the imposition of sanctions on French, Russian and Malaysian companies investing in the development of Iran's South Pars gas field, Iran rejoiced that "America finally bowed to European pressure".
But then I rejoiced: no way could she finish that.
Activists rejoiced when they got a provision requiring firms to publish payments per project included in the ragbag Dodd-Frank corporate-reform act in 2010.
ALL of Europe rejoiced when the European Space Agency deposited Philae, a probe the size of a kitchen appliance, on the surface of a comet 300m miles (480m km) from the Earth.
