Word: jovialities
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...dining hall retains its comparatively jovial atmosphere, the athletic teams, with few exceptions, continue to perform well (Winthrop is currently leading in the Straus Trophy competition), and the recreation and common rooms still attract varied groups of students...
...street to catch a glimpse. When Malenkov raised his hand and grinned his broadest, the walls echoed with a welcoming cheer. "He was so clean-cut," one sewing-machine operator told a reporter later, "he looked like an American." "Like Charles Laughton," gushed another, "only younger and more jovial...
...Suaviter, Portlier." That night, when the President walked into his office with his final draft (which he had edited considerably with black pencil after the last typing), he was relaxed and jovial. On his desk in front of the lectern rested an inch-high plate bearing the Latin motto, Suaviter in Modo, Fortiter in Re, and the translation, "Gently in Manner, Strongly in Deed."* When someone mentioned the motto, which has been on the President's desk for more than a year, he cracked: "Maybe I'd better hide that; that proves I'm an egghead...
...year. Just as he was getting ready to campaign, he got a call from Candidate Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters in Manhattan. "Len," barked Sherman Adams, "you're taking the train." And so Hall rode with Ike, took care of his schedules and appointments, and acted as a jovial maitre d'hôtel aboard the campaign train. On Election Day, without ever delivering a speech for himself, he easily won his judgeship...
...magazine International Life Boris Izakov: "We loved with all our hearts the hardworking, energetic, kindhearted, hospitable, cheerful, jovial people...