Word: jocularity
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Photoelectrically controlled Bessemer steel is mainly due to a man with a jocular drawl, who likes to fish, take photographs of steel mills, put his feet on his desk. His name is Herbert W. Graham and J. & L. got him fresh from Lehigh University in 1914. He once told his research staff that, instead of 200 bright ideas a year, he would rather have two ideas that worked. In 1934 smart Metallurgist Graham persuaded J. & L. to let him build a complete miniature pilot mill to try out new metallurgical ideas. In this mill he developed...
...have more to say tomorrow. Finally, the latest reports indicate that the University has successfully weathered the Chicago fire and is coming forth today with Bing Crosby in "Paris Honeymoon." Concerning, of course, neither Paris nor a honeymoon, it is nevertheless in the approved Crosby manner--casual, sophisticated, sentimental, jocular...
First thing Rube did was to ask the Sun for hints on editorial policy. He was given a list of orthodox Republican likes and dislikes, touched up with a heavily jocular postcript: "Dear Rube: We also in theory favor truth and beauty and oppose rape and cannibalism...
...Jocular were the promises Eddie Cantor sang into his microphone six years ago. Now Comedian Cantor is president of the American Federation of Radio Artists...
White Banners (Warner Bros.) continues the campaign of moral uplift which its author, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, started in Magnificent Obsession and Green Light. Central character of Green Light was a bubbly jocular minister who, when the minor characters in the story became upset, explained to them that humanity was a kind of automotive parade best governed by the traffic signals of unselfishness. In White Banners, the minister is replaced by a warm-hearted maid-of-all-work named Hannah (Fay Bainter). Otherwise, the formula is much the same. When Hannah straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher...