Word: jovialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which goes into the weaving of an American tapestry, a tapestry based on a firm mat of fact gleaned and connected by profound scholarly effort. The entire book would prove of valuable assistance to students of American history and expansion. In fact, it may well be taken as a jovial and sympathetic lecture on the social and intellectual history of the United States during the pre-War of 1812 period. At first the frequent use of obsolete words in conversation leads to a measure of resentment, for one fears that the writer is setting out to display a large...
...meeting one day last week, Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt. 57-year-old retired plumber of Santa Monica, found time heavy on his hands. He would, he decided, go and see his old friend Cliff Dailey who ran a grocery and meat store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like a truck driver swigging whiskey from a bottle...
...palace King Prajad-hipok stopped at the Temple of the Emerald Buddha (where he had served his novitiate as a monk before his coronation) to worship his six royal ancestors while yellow-robed priests spun prayer wheels. From the palace jovial Prince Svasti, the King's father-in-law (who smokes fat cigarets) issued a statement...
...exciting spectacle and one to which he can take his family or friends. He would no more think of attending a game to support the team than he would attend the Follies because the third girl from the left came from Chicago, his home town. A good deal of jovial intercollegiate rivalry exists and always will, which is natural. Undergraduates will back their team to win and cheer the players, but with somewhat less enthusiasm than a Boston hockey fan would back the Bruins. After the game is over and a snake dance indulged in, or watched casually, the student...
...shady Englewood, N. J. one mid-day last week drove nine jovial members of the U. S. Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce to have lunch with air-minded Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. The night before, after a radio speech in behalf of a Jewish charity drive, he complained of being tired, but said he would be in shape for the luncheon. When the guests rolled up before the comfortable Morrow home, not many miles from where another great New Jersey citizen was dying, they were met with shocking news; when the Senator had not awakened by 11:30 that morning...