Word: jollyness
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Ceramics. Sanctiora auro, certe innocentiora* wrote Roman Pliny of the ceramic statues of the Etruscans. Far from sacred but often fine were the 142 examples of U. S. ceramic art with which the Whitney Museum opened its season this week. Assembled last year by the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts...
In Russian, the word red also means good, jolly, pretty-as: she is a red girl.
Says William L. ("Jolly Pumpernickle Bill") Steinke, leading authority on spelling, translation and pronunciation of Pennsylvania Dutch and originator of the column Bill now edits:
One day last week several score plump, giggling ladies of a certain age risked their lives riding across the ruffled waters of Chesapeake Bay aboard a small tender. The Senate Ladies Club and a collection of wives of the Cabinet and of ex-officials (among them Widow Woodrow Wilson), were...
The future Congressman was born (1895) in San Antonio, a stone's throw from the Alamo, the eleventh and last of his family. After a year at V. M. I. he finished college at the University of Texas, took three years of law in one and was admitted to...