Word: jollyness
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The author of these, and other, first-rate accounts of the current struggle that has divided all Italy begged off making any quick judgments of the U.S. at first sight and relapsed into the kind of tourism that is apparently inevitable with first visitors to New York. "No matter how...
In more recent years, the royal family has not shared Victoria's suspicion of homeopathy: twelve years ago the top-drawer job of physician to the King went to genial Homeopath Sir John Weir. Weir, a white-haired, white-mustached master of the jolly bedside manner, shares honors with...
Santa glumly takes off. "Then as he flew over the Atlantic, his radio caught the chimes of Moscow, and there were choruses of children's voices, jolly, singing, laughing. 'That lucky guy, Grandfather Frost. He brings them what they want. . . Things to live and not to die.'...
But Punch's well-ensconced readers would not be startled from their armchairs: they had chuckled over the cartoons of rotund Cyril Kenneth Bird, 61, for years. As art editor, Bird, a jolly, crinkly little man, has been responsible for much of the streamlining of Punch in recent years...
It was a dramatic moment. "The palette gleamed with beads of colour; fair and white rose the canvas; the empty brush hung poised, heavy with destiny, irresolute in the air . . ." Winston Churchill had just sat down, at 43, to paint his first oil. In a jolly essay entitled "Painting as...