Word: buoyant
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...High Adventure?Jeffery Farnol ($2). The modern Dumas-Dickens at his buoyant best...
...Southampton. The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea is no friend to tennis players. It sends its fogs to swell catgut strings so that a dry day will snap them; it strangles the buoyant spirits of balls; its rains rot turf, soften sand. All these things it did at Southhampton last week, but the annual invitation tournament went smoothly on. There was only one upset-the defeat of Alfred Chapin by Cedric A. Major of Manhattan. Young George Lott of Chicago easily ended the hopes of upstart Major, and was himself defeated in the finals by Howard Kinsey, last year...
...applaud only the more obvious successes. It comes unheralded by George M. Cohan or Arthur Hammerstein, for as yet it has not attained that mature development that such prominence demands. "Baby Blue" is a dainty, fragile thing with a few sweet songs and a great deal of light buoyant humor. After a great many suggestive comedies and heavy revues of the Winter season, it brings with it the fresh, clean breath of Spring...
...Klein gave Washington a treat by a peaceful two-hour cruise over the city. When the time finally came for the ceremonies, the ZR3 misbehaved disgracefully. Six hours flight had made a dent in the fuel supply carried on board, and the huge dirigible was too light and buoyant. Several hundred sailors hanging on heavy tow lines could not haul her down, and when one of the tow lines snapped, to the discomfiture of the straining gobs, she sailed off again. Admiral Moffett was obliged to give radio orders for release of some of the precious helium, before the ship...
Stevenson is spoken of as perpetually gay in the midst of physical agony, financial reverses, artistic disappointment. It is true that he was of a buoyant nature?a genial bubble riding stormy seas. But he was subject to fits of overwhelming depression. "Oh Medea, kill me or make me young again!" he cries...