Word: jocularly
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Presently Louis McHenry Howe mustered enough strength to get out of the car. At once jocular Mr. Garner turned and started telling him that he looked younger each time he saw him. Mr. Howe forced a sickly smile. But his wrinkled face lighted up in earnest when the Presidential Special from Warm Springs rolled in through the tunnel from the South. His job had come home...
...intuition of Mr. Baldwin proved sound. Overnight almost the entire London Press did a complete somersault. Broadcast was the happy thought that Britain was again to shoulder her white man's burden, this time to impose the Pax Britannica upon the Saar. As one London evening paper observed with jocular gusto, "The only essential is that the troops shall be the best and smartest we have and that they shall be accompanied by their bands. A kilted regiment would be most impressive and a segment of pipers would be certain to distract the Saarlander from the asperities of current politics...
...itself be taken as confession of the failure of his own New Deal. Many of those who demanded to be reassured were saying that nothing he said could reassure them-nothing short of his abdication. Others had, with some reason, pointed to his Green Bay speech and to other jocular remarks as indicating that the President was so ignorant of "what it is all about" that he did not even believe anybody really needed any reassurance...
Wearing a wine-colored dressing gown and seated in the wheel chair used by Murderess Alice Lindsay Wynekoop. he was jocular about his newly trimmed hair and mustache...
...customary jocular vein, the President looked over his conference of newshawks, told them that they looked pale and tired and needed a rest and therefore he was going to order them to take five or six days' vacation in Florida sunshine. Thus he playfully conveyed the information that he himself had decided to take a rest in Florida the end of March...