Word: jovialities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French group was Aristide Briand, Foreign Minister, looking tired and bored, more shaggy than ever, his half-closed eyes often gazing at the ceiling. M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, restless, smiling, alert, was in startling contrast to Louis Loucheur, heavy, stolid, inscrutable. Everybody noted, regretted, the absence of jovial, concise, dapper Henry de Jouvenel, recently resigned...
Later, His Royal Highness motored over to Calgary, the neighboring capital of Alberta, and jovially addressed an official gathering, thus: "It is a delight for me to come down from my 'rawnch,' but perhaps I should say ranch." "I am told," continued "Edward, Prince," "that there is a difference between a rawnch and a ranch. A ranch pays, and a rawnch doesn't, but I am not going to give away which my place is." The Canadian tour of Prime Minister & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin diverged from that of the Princes last week as scheduled, and the Baldwin...
...would be play. On the fleet flagship Carinthia members of the International Board planned to "hold several meetings," to clear up odds and ends left dangling after its big meeting, prior to embarkation, in Manhattan. International President Harry* H. Rogers was there, jovial but with his duties well in mind. He would be chief exchanger of greetings and ideas with Rotarians of all nations...
...waiting of bosat, a beverage then esteemed and consisting, much like the modern "milk shake," of flavored sugar and cream. While she presided, swathed to immobility in riches, the courtiers of Tamburlaine-according to an ancient historian-"would fall down drunk before her; and this was considered very jovial, for . . . there can be no pleasure without drunken...
...very jovial was the manner in which a mob, roused by the priests last week, set out to discipline women less docile than the ancient queen. Three women who were caught veilless were bound to stakes and exposed to a pious mob which threw stones until the women died. One youthful male Communist was likewise bound, reviled by the Ichans (Priests), and beaten to death with flails, despite attempts by the police to rescue him. Kindlers of Asia. All over the province of Samarkand and throughout Turkestan similar outbursts were provoked last week by "Woman's Day." This remote...