Word: jocularities
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...Congressmen, in their haste to have done with the whole thing, brooked no argument. Budget Director Harold D. Smith, trying as a patient civil servant to argue for the Treasury program, found the Ways & Means Committee an impatient listener. (Said one jocular member: "Mr. Smith came to town and after a couple of Democrats got through with him it was Good-bye Mr. Chips.") Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, who tried to convince the Committee that nothing less than $13.8 billion in new taxes would stave off inflation ($6 billion to be re fundable after...
...story something as warm with life as a heart beat, yet kept it masculine with the kind of tough Army humor he once put into What Price Glory?. There are swearing, ribald sergeants in The Eve of St. Mark as well as young-eyed privates. There is jocular cynicism as well as burning faith. There are roadhouse floozies as well as the girl back home...
From all accounts Churchill and Stalin enjoyed the meeting. A state dinner of 26 courses in the Kremlin lasted until dawn. It was a gay affair, "full of fun and very jocular." Stalin "told several jokes." Twenty-five toasts were drunk, including one to President Roosevelt. It sounded suspiciously as if in spite of the marching Panzers those two old rascals had had themselves a time...
Girl students are uncommonly good looking. Possible reason is a jocular order which School Director Henry John Roesch gave the employment manager. "Hire me a lemon, Joe," said Roesch, "and out you go." Kitty McNulty, pert ex-stock girl training to become a junior inspector on aircraft, is a typical non-lemon. "I like this work a lot," says she, "because it keeps your mind awake...
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major (Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50). Composer Mahler, who died in 1911, was the last and least appreciated of the great Central European symphonists. His fledgling work, songful and ironic (in a jocular funeral march on the round Frere Jacques), gets a rousing first recording...