Word: jovialities
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Instructive were these meetings of the real owners of the corporation with their management. Most of the stockholders sidled in, a little embarrassed, more than a little flattered when jovial Chairman Bell shook them by the hand. He tried to make them feel at home, showed them lantern slides of directors and executives who were not present, as well as of General Mills' mills, process, products. The company comptroller explained to them a simplified balance sheet ("Liabilities-What...
Next morning, the jovial host, a 225-lb. onetime Danish Guardsman named Lauritz Melchior, felt that things had perhaps been carried a little too far. His wife took pieces of cake and candy to the neighbors, assuring them that such a thing would never happen again. The neighbors allowed themselves to be placated. For Mrs. Melchior is very persuasive. And Lauritz Melchior is the world's No. 1 Wagnerian tenor...
...them (Elisabeth Rethberg, Lotte Lehmann, Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List) were veterans of leading German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser...
...ophthalmology at Georgetown University, for more years than most of his colleagues can remember he performed eye operations in the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. During that time he brought up a half-dozen younger surgeons, built up a legend about his generosity to charity patients. But about jovial, warmhearted Dr. Muncaster there is one dark mystery: his age. In his Who's Who in the Nation's Capital biography there is no birthdate; in his medical directory it is carefully scratched out. He looks like 60, runs around like 50, claims to be "past...
...North China death came to the old fox who was for many months Japan's greatest hope as a potential puppet-Marshal Wu Pei-fu, jovial poet, patriot, warlord. The Marshal died after an operation for an infected tooth. For a long time he led the Japanese to believe he would take the job they offered, but when the time came for his formal acceptance (at a party to which foreign correspondents were invited), he said to the Japanese, in effect: I shall become a puppet on the day when you little men go back to your little islands...