Word: jollyness
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U.S. newspaper readers got a fresh point of view last week on the horrors of capture by the Japs. Inexplicably, Duke University published a rather jolly piece of reading on approximately the same subject. To the quiet North Carolina campus had come a sunny, mellow letter from James Halsema, Class...
Place of Spirits. This rain-goddess is a familiar figure in Rhodesia: a well-shaped, fearless Matabele woman of 55 with a jolly face, a searching gaze, a European taste in clothes, and (according to her people) a proved ability to make rain. A white prospector who believed the old...
> Errol Flynn, singing and swaggering a neat Cockney period act, That's What You Jolly Well Get.
Mr. Ema and Miss Ame. Then the Young Soldier meets fat, jolly Mr. Transportouse (Transport House is the head quarters of Britain's conservative labor leaders, loathed by leftish Laborites), who genially expounds the wonders that will come from Labor Party gradualism. He takes out of a box two...
> Numerous Michigan housewives had received mash notes enclosed in their ration books. Said an OPA official: "None of the notes were what could be described as vulgar. They merely emphasized a tendency to jolly the public along a bit."