Word: jovialities
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...Rhoads is no dour, highstrung, achey Dr. Arrowsmith. He is a jovial, rollicking young man who has topped every group he ever has been with. He was president of his high school graduating class at Springfield, Mass., marshal of Bowdoin, 1920, president of Harvard Medical, 1924. Both his A.B. and M.D. degrees were cum laude...
...Never had I seen anything like it even in our biggest championship years at the Stadium. The six games in Tokyo were like a world series . . . each one drew between 55,000 and 60.000. . . . The gates had to be locked at 10:30. Never had I seen such happy jovial crowds...
Next day Mayor Walker announced that he would go to California not as the Biggest City's chief executive, but as a private citizen and lawyer to defend aged Mary Mooney's son Thomas, at a hearing before Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. in San Francisco. Jovial Sunny Jim, instead of taking offense at what might have seemed an unwarranted intrusion upon California's affairs, said he would be glad to see his wisecracking little friend once more. He telephoned the Adjutant General's office to have the militia fire a salute as Mayor Walker...
...Rockefeller, at ease among intimate friends, recalled what a young man (27) he was when Drs. Smith, Flexner, Welch and others organized the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Welch saluted Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Rockefeller, and other ladies present, with an old bachelor's old quip, forebore retelling his more jovial stories...
...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...