Word: jovialities
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...years big, jovial, redheaded Paul Tasse, 56, has been the talkative boss barber in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier barbershop. Now he and his wife were celebrating 35 years of marriage. Routhier School's hall was rented for the occasion and bedecked with barber poles. Prime Minister King helped welcome guests. Between homey speeches, an orchestra played selections from Barber of Seville...
Mount's forte was pictorial storytelling. One of the best examples in the Met's show is The Breakdown, a jovial boys-in-the-back-room scene, which provoked an arch rebuke from the New York Mirror, a weekly, of June 13, 1835: "We might be disposed to wish that such superior talents and skill as are here displayed had been exercised on a subject of a higher grade in the social scale. . . ." Another characteristic Mount is Bargaining for a Horse, showing two farmers, standing near a sleek saddle horse tethered to a barnyard fence, and busily engaged...
...people in Norway thought that Arne Fjellbu had the stuff of a hero or a martyr. The Iowa-born Dean of Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral was too jovial, too easygoing. No one thought, when the Nazis first came, that he would ever defy them...
...Europe would be over by now if Britain and Russia had not got sidetracked in politics. Such eruptions would be important if they were planted in the Journal by the Administration (as the Russians apparently suspect). But generally they are simply the opinions of the Journal's jovial, rosy-cheeked Publisher John Callan O'Laughlin, 72; less often they are the opinions of O'Laughlin friends in the Army & Navy...
...jovial Major General Patrick Jay Hurley, who has been coal miner, cowboy, mule skinner, lawyer to the Choctaws, buck private and presidential envoy extraordinary, began his newest job: U.S. Ambassador to China. His letters of credence had not arrived from Washington, but Chungking waved aside such formalities. In the American Embassy Pat Hurley held his first press conference, told reporters how he had taken part in parleys between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Chinese Communists. It was a strangely unself-conscious tale...