Word: jovialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Broom, wrote for the late Dial. In 1929 he became associate editor of The New Republic. Translator, poet and champion of his literary generation, he has published one book of verse (Blue Juniata), numerous translations from the French, many a literary article. Slow of speech, heavyset, jovial, he is a devotee of deck tennis, an addict to fishing. Though not a member of the Communist Party, he has become "politicalized," writes with a strong leftish slant...
...messengers re-elected as their president Dr. Monroe Elmon Dodd, a bald, jovial, Tennessee-born cleric who stepped up from a vice-presidency last year when President Fred T. Brown fell ill. Dr. Dodd went to Shreveport, La. 22 years ago where he helped found a college named Dodd in his honor, of which he is still president. This year he traveled 50,000 miles on Southern Baptist business. A lusty parliamentarian, he whammed his gavel often last week, told the messengers: "Our church is stronger spiritually today than in years. Men are spending more of their time on their...
Disinterred from its grave by some of our jovial Freshmen the skunk made its appearance late last night in the Georgian Lunch. It disappeared shortly, however, and its whereabouts are unknown...
Last week the Senate Committee investigation of the airmail passed into the "minority phase" with Senator Austin, Vermont Republican, in command. Called to the witness stand was big, jovial, double-chinned First Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes who testified that he had been "proud" of the service under private contractors, that cancellation had been actively pushed by lobbyists who "came in hosts, like a cloud of grasshoppers." Astute questioning by Senator Austin forced him to admit that at a meeting with airmail contractors last autumn-a meeting not unlike the "spoils conferences" which cost them their contracts...
Titular ruler of the U. S. toy world is William Charles Lehman, big, jovial, redheaded president of Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A., Inc. Lehman Co. of America (more specifically of Cannelton, Ind.) has been making nursery furniture since 1876. The business is now run by four third generation toymaking Lehman brothers of which the oldest and wisest is William Charles. At the fair last week, the Brothers Lehman's pride & joy, was a 275-lb. high chair, built for display, from which no baby could escape. Even an adult locked in behind the tray cannot overtip...