Word: jollyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inflation is a cruel thing. Gucci is now charging $110 for a pair of loafers, and you can't get a hamburger at "21" for less than $10. A Rolls-Royce? Don't ask. So what's a fella gonna do at Christmas time but ask Santa for a raise...
Old Santa Claus and many religious leaders objected at first when Christmas Day became Christmas Long Weekend, but The Santa Corporation created Claus Reindeer Raceway to mollify the jolly golden-age elf, and the company paid spiritual operatives to develop splinter sects for Christmas Reformists.
The corporation's drive built momentum. Christmas Long Weekend expanded into Christmas Week, then Christmas Month. Instead of one jolly old elf, "Santa" came to mean a conglomerate of ambitious, clean-shaven young elves, each with a Masters in Business Administration. Old Santa, realizing that things had gotten out of...
The subject enthusiastically approved of the portrait that went on display at Manhattan's Coe Kerr Gallery. "It makes me look as jolly as you could after a hard day's work," said Dancer Rudolf Nureyev. Artist Jamie Wyeth had dogged his footsteps, making sketches "before, during and...
Jolly good show, Freddie!