Word: jocund
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Where are the blithe and jocund to ted the hay? Where are the free folk of England? Where are they? Ask of the Abingdon bus with full load creeping Down into denser suburbs . . . Ask at the fish and chips in the Market Square...
...lanes a-maying? Where are the blithe and jocund...
...lowborn Nelly was cheaper to keep than dames of high degree. She was generally a sight less meddlesome. "All matters of state with her soul she does hate," the broadside ran, "and leaves to the politic bitches." And not least: "When he was dumpish, still would she be jocund / And chuck the royal chin of Charles the Second...
...first he refused to believe scouts who were sent to recapture him. Finally he returned, immediately got nervous too. Kieran launched into a list of ten new questions. "From where does this line come: 'Night's candles are burn t out and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops'?" Stone pondered, perspired, gave up. Coe knew the answer: Romeo and Juliet. After that he stayed one question ahead. But on the last question he said the circumference of the earth was 27,000 miles. Stone got it right: 25,000 miles. The two had finished...
...mannerisms of a body guard and a devoted wife, became a dead ringer for Rudolf Hess. Luis Van Rooten's Heinrich Himmler is verisimilitudinous enough to make flesh crawl. Even when resemblances are not quite accurate, casting and the general performance are psychologically effective. Goring's jocund tigerishness is embodied by a bulky Hungarian named Alexander Pope. Martin Kosleck does not look much like Joseph Goebbels but manages to capture Goebbels' sidelong glide, his peculiar blend of cynicism and venom. As the niece whom Hitler is supposed to have seduced and murdered, Poldy Dur is a suitably...