Word: jocular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that of extraordinary pleasure and true enjoyment for being back once again in this land which I have learned so much to love." And as he rode into town with Macmillan, the President saw about him a London that would not change-jodhpur-clad girls riding in Rotten Row; jocular types with pints of bitter outside the Fox and Hound, the Three Kings, the Bunch of Grapes; the predictable athlete pumping along main roads in Kensington, eyes down, elbows high, oblivious to the motorcade...
...rowboat. But they must also learn that a school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache. Most deceptive of all for Thach's sound detectives are the pings, for all the world like those from submarines, that bounce off sunken wrecks. And for precisely that reason, the wise enemy submariner would be most likely to launch...
...walking around the room assembling pages of the Tutorial Report so that it might be released to the student body as quickly as possible. The picture appeared rather amusing to me and evoked the jesting response which, when it appeared in the CRIMSON, indicated an attitude somewhat distant from jocular...
Sergeant Bunt is by far the most endearing and best drawn character in this scandalous novel-perhaps because he is a figment of Author Menen's vivid, jocular imagination. Most of the other characters in The Abode of Love have not this advantage. They are real, and so are most of the activities around which Menen builds this rococo piece of history told "in the form of a novel." The Rev. Henry James Prince (who takes the scabrous Bunt under his wing and is the principal character) was a flesh-and-blood renegade clergyman. In the 18403 Prince founded...
Most of the cast is as good as the other aspects of the production. Rosalind Froug, the stock broker, has an overwhelming stage presence and a pleasant singing voice. As the poet, Frederic Morehouse is at least adequate, though at times he is a little too jocular for an exalted writer, while Lee Jeffries and James Spiegler make an appealing romantic couple. And another couple, played by Betsy Nelson and Fred Mueller, is funny enough to stop the show. In addition, the direction of Hugh Fortmiller helps to make Tea and Empathy into a show at least as good...