Word: jovialities
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...Lazarist,* Father Täpper ran a hospice at Tabgha, in which a handful of monks and nuns gave visitors simple food, simple comfort. His friends called the jovial, pipe-smoking father the "King of Galilee." The Arabs who worked for him and netted fish on his shores made him their sheik...
Queen Caroline's real genius, however, lay in the unobtrusive management of her pompous, stupid consort. When they came to the throne in 1727, she teamed with fat, jovial Sir Robert Walpole, then Prime Minister, to keep the King in line and to strengthen his Stuart-threatened dynasty. She even gave the benefit of her wiles to the miniaturist Frederick Zincke, whom she secretly warned "to make the King's picture young, not above 25." Flattered, George bade the painter "employ all your time in pictures for me, for I will take them...
...cyclotron is a type of atom-smasher which speeds atomic projectiles up to enormous energies by whirling them in magnetic fields. When the University of California's smart, jovial Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented it about a decade ago, it was used for the purest sort of research in experimental physics. Three years ago the cyclotron switched from pure science to practical science when it was discovered that beams of neutrons produced by the cyclotron destroyed cancer cells in mice. A regular program of medical cyclotron work was set afoot, in charge of the inventor's brother...
...London Philharmonic Orchestra, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 3 sides). Jovial tunes, performed only once in the U. S., which Beethoven wrote for a lucky little orchestra which played at a German...
Unable to do anything about the office, the President last week did the next best thing by picking an incumbent to his taste. To replace Acting Comptroller Richard Nash Elliott, an Indiana Republican almost as snappish as Mr. McCarl, Mr. Roosevelt bestowed a full appointment on jovial, jowly Democrat Frederick Herbert Brown of New Hampshire, who lost his Senate seat last November. Now 59, he will receive $10,000 a year until...