Word: jollyness
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In "Sentimental Education" the meeting takes even longer. Elgin Smith sees a girl on the steps of Widener Library in September. Only occasionally does he think of her in the days that follow, until he again sees her at a Radcliffe Jolly-Up in Cabot Hall in mid-October.
Winner of the chemistry prize was a jolly biochemist, Melvin Calvin, 50, of the University of California at Berkeley. Born in St. Paul and educated chiefly at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Calvin has long since earned the title: "Mr. Photosynthesis." Shortly after World War II, he began to use...
On the shelves of U.S. record stores, supermarkets and drug stores, there is a multiplying variety of long-playing albums apparently aimed at all the jolly clods whose upper and lower lips wrestle while they read. These Records for Illiterates-there are hundreds-give the word on everything from Human...
For the first half hour or so, Hollywood's Holly (Audrey Hepburn) is not much different from Capote's. She has kicked the weed and lost the illegitimate child she was having, but she is still jolly Holly, the child bride from Tulip, Texas, who at 15 runs...
But Author White's hydrangeas too often turn purple: ".Mrs. Jolly had burst open," he writes, "and her white teeth were gashing the kitchen"-when all he means to say is that the lady was smiling. The fundamental difficulty is that Author White finds words more real than people...