Word: jovialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Germany was "just as normal and orderly as could be desired." What every reporter on the Bremen saw in it was the power of Adolf Hitler to stifle all opinions but his own. Last week he dismissed Consul-General Kiep's colleague in Manhattan, rotund, jovial Consul Paul Schwarz, for not being a Nazi...
...Walter P. Chrysler arrived from New York. Henry and Edsel Ford conferred with the officers of the Union Guardian Trust. Jovial Scotsman Alex Dow of Detroit Edison. Alvan Macauley of Packard. Burch Foraker of Michigan Bell Telephone, William Gordon Woolfolk of Detroit City Gas. Frederic and William A. Fisher (bodies), Dubois Young of Hupmobile, Charles T. Van Dusen of S. S. Kresge-the leading citizens of Detroit- Newberrys, McMillans. Algers-all were drawn into the conferences...
Author Sayre's Rackety Rax got a good press and went to Hollywood; Hizzoner the Mayor deserves an even better fate. Riotously jovial satire, it sets ringing no tocsin of reform but the welkin echoes its topical tintinnabulations. Aside from and under its uproarious humor, Hizzoner the Mayor has grimmer implications that need underlining nowadays for few U. S. citizens. In the perennial Augean task of turning the rascals out, such hearty slapstick broom-thwacks as Author Sayre's may be as effective in the long run as all the Herculean street-cleaning apparatus of a Judge Seabury...
...last order the Porcupine quartet had not the heart to obey. They simply had to clean up when they went to the big city. They appeared at the dinner in store clothes with faces bright & shining. Vexed, Matt Brush would not let them sing. He and jovial Speculator Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, upon whom the quartet had also made a profound impression and who had helped finance the stunt, were deeply disappointed over the whole business...
...degree of pallor and wryness. would pluck two pledgets of cotton from a case and on them pour a few drops of a liquid. Mr. Coolidge would plug the medicated cotton in his ears. Soon his face would relax and ruddy Col. Coupal was free to continue with his jovial stories...