Word: jollyness
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"Jolly Cholly" Grimm had, in effect, asked for it. He had been invited to manage the Cubs by their owner P. K. Wrigley after they had already lost ten games and Manager Jimmy Wilson had been ousted. As soon as he could find someone to take over his successful Milwaukee...
They're There. In East Africa, jolly British Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, flying low over Kenya Colony's game lands, rubbed his eyes, took another peek at the herd of pink elephants below. The elephants, explained a knowing aide, had been rolling in reddish clay and they...
Holmes was in his final year at Harvard when Fort Sumter was bombarded. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry, was wounded three times. The second time, as he lay near death in a cornfield, a passing chaplain murmured: "You're a Christian, aren't...
Americans aboard the Gripsholm (see p. 26) brought the sad news from shackled France: portly, jolly-jowled, kind-eyed Edouard Herriot is dead. He died in a prison of silence, watched by Vichy jailers. The Pétain government did not proclaim the death, did not mourn the massive liberal...
It isn't just single scenes that have a reminiscent flavor. The whole thing appears to come out of a cutting room of the 1935 days. Then it was new, and jolly, and something that everybody liked. Now it is just the same old stale stuff.