Word: jollyness
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NO, there is no escaping Christmas cards, not even in these days of recession. For better or worse, they have become one of America's unavoidable, conventional and yet curiously revelatory means of communication. Seemingly carriers of good will, their messages are both specialized and highly descriptive of the...
After 317 covers for the Saturday Evening Post, plus countless ads for everything from varnish to the Boy Scouts, Norman Rockwell is enshrined-in the U.S. at least-as "the best-known artist who ever lived." He is certainly the chronicler of one American dream, with its gawky Huck Finns...
"I think the atmosphere is more cultural now, less oriented toward Strawberry Breakfasts and Jolly-Ups," Mrs. Shirley Broner, secretary of South House, said.
According to Hawthorne's short story The Maypole of Merry Mount, the peal of a psalm from Plymouth would occasionally collide with "the chorus of a jolly catch" from Merry-Mount and echo in a splendid confusion of styles. Suppose a little band of displaced Americans had lived exactly...
Charles Englehard is a shrewd man among the shrewd, but a jolly man with a heartening laugh and sparkling dark brown eyes which mirror the clever mind behind, and when Nijinsky wins the Laurel International for his thirteenth victory in thirteen starts and retires, Englehard will have a lot to...