Word: jollyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet a great many of these letters consist of a kind of British banterchatter. The author of the shimmeringly exquisite Waves, writing to her artist-sister Vanessa Bell, natters on endlessly about the servant problem, her dog Shot, the difficulties of choosing chair covers, the advisability of drinking plenty of...
It was a glorious, gala night for Rhodesia's whites. Champagne flowed, ladies wore elegant gowns, their men were in tuxedos and regimental kilts. At midnight, after guests saluted him with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, Prime Minister Ian Smith rang Rhodesia's silver Independence...
Members of the well-dressed, martinisipping group applauded sympathetically when Robertson said he had worked hard and had no regrets. After he finished speaking a four-piece Dixie band struck up a rendition of "He's A Jolly Good Fellow" and "Hail, Hail The Gang's All Here."
Peonies for Life. How one misses that old supporting cast! Much more than Poirot, Miss Marple inhabits a fixed and lively world. There is her tactless next-door neighbor, Miss Hartnell. "weather-beaten and jolly and much dreaded by the poor"; the wealthy, amiable Bantrys; taciturn Sir Henry dithering, who...
Jolly Read. Small wonder then that Now Playing at Canterbury seems designed to stun the carpers into silence. The novel's considerable heft and the titular allusion to Chaucer are signs that High Seriousness is about to be committed. Bourjaily's publisher has pitched in with a prepublication...