Word: jollyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The opening ceremonies were fairly innocuous, sometimes stirring but mostly boring. The contingents of athletes marched in wearing their hotdog winter stretchsuits littered with racing stripes. The mayor of Sapporo, Japan, where the 1972 Winter Olympics were held, downed a gulp of brandy with the "jolly burgomeister" of Innsbruck And...
Short v. Tall. The plot is Simon simple; yet it has all the engaging velocity of a Feydeau farce. Two short and jolly people, Eddie Kettle (Charles Repole) and Elsie Darling (Virginia Seidel), have just got married to two very tall and stuffy people, Georgina Kettle (Spring Fairbank) and Percy...
Died. Joan Whitney Payson, 72, jolly, spirited centimillionaire and lifelong sports fanatic who owned racing stables and, since its inception, the New York Mets baseball team; following hospitalization for a stroke; in Manhattan.
Growing up, learning to play the piano, singing patronizing ditties like that, small wonder that thousands upon thousands of young children ended up with kindly but bored thoughts of old Papa Haydn. Set to the jolly theme from the Surprise Symphony, not unlike Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, it conjured up...
THE STORY MIGHT READ BETTER as a novel, opening as it does with a scene that Sinclair Lewis would have loved: the meeting of the University of California Board of Regents, fresh from mint juleps at San Francisco's Bohemian and Pacific Union Clubs, with at least 10 millionaires out...