Word: jovialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high bench in Bow Street Court last week Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sir Rollo Frederick Graham-Campbell fidgeted beneath his robes and wig. Royal Dukes, Archbishops and Dukes are the top dogs of the British peerage, and below Sir Rollo, quietly awaiting judgment as a prisoner, stood that jovial, ruddy sporting peer, His Grace the Duke of Atholl, lord of 200,000 Scottish acres, master of the only private army in Great Britain and a War hero who won by conspicuous bravery in action...
...arrived in Turkey last week no member of the Politbureau or Steering Committee of Moscow's ruling Communist Party had ever ventured outside the Soviet Union since it was founded. Obviously enjoying himself, War Minister "Klim" arrived with his ferociously bewhiskered colleague in arms, Cavalry General Budenny, and jovial Soviet Education Minister Bubnov. All three big Reds brought their wives. They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried them 300 mi. up to Ankara...
...been widely shown, generously bought by all but Kansans. "Tornado," the canvas that won him $1,000 last week, shows a Kansas family diving for a storm cellar as a dusty horn of wind sweeps in from the darkened horizon. On its first showing in an exhibition arranged by jovial William Allen White, onetime Governor Henry J. Allen's wife deplored: "Cyclones . . . are certainly to be found in Kansas, but why must Mr. Curry paint these freakish subjects? His self-portrait shows . . . a boyhood that has only seen the most sordid conditions of life...
...Peggy Wood) whom he ogles without recognizing. The adapters in their effort to oil away the creaks have injected many a laborious 1933 wisecrack. George Meader is going to prison because he neglected to pay his income tax. Someone "passes out." The jail is a "happy hoose-gow," a "jovial jug," a "peppy prison." Strauss's music deserves a real prima donna for the role through which Peggy Wood flounders. Tenor George Meader, sprightlier than ever, seems to have forgotten that he was once good enough to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House. The Pursuit of Happiness (by Alan...
Last week newsmen went to see Charles Ward, who had just been left $1,000,000 by a man he had met in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Jovial Charles Ward gave one of his interviewers a gold cigaret lighter, told his story...