Word: jocularly
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Toward the end, Vaughan even took the offensive in a jocular sort of way. He was asked if he couldn't have kept his old pal John Maragon out of the White House just by telling the guards not to let him in. "I could do that, yes," he said, "but Maragon is a lovable sort of a chap. You cannot get mad at him. It is awful hard to do, at least." Maragon, he went on, would have to be "pretty well washed up, fumigated," but he thought that "most of Maragon's sins have not been...
...cutting from TIME, Oct. 11, has been forwarded to me by an American friend. I am both humiliated and distressed to discover that . . . emphasis has been placed on minor remarks of a jocular nature, to the entire disfavor of Kent School, whereas the serious side of Kent life, which was stressed by me in enthusiastic terms, has been completely ignored...
...coached Wolverine football for ten years, and it looked like a good time to quit. He would stay on as Michigan's athletic director, and he had picked his successor: Benjamin G. (Bennie) Oosterbaan, 47, a Michigan football immortal, three-time All-America end. A native Michigander, hulking, jocular Oosterbaan has been on Michigan's coaching staff ever since he graduated...
Gerald S. Spear '48, head cheerleader, led his last rally last night, and for the last time he sung out for "a regular cheer for the team." Faus only know this jocular Spear, the dancing figure on Saturday sidelines, or the fancied director of rally parades...
Visibly staggered by the weight of the iron and the responsibility G. B. S.'s jocular cable has placed on his shoulders, Weisgal smiled contentedly as he sighed, "I've fulfilled many a young lady's dreams, but this is the first time I've satisfied George Bernard Shaw...