Word: jovialities
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...radio: "We've accomplished a great deal in the four months since January." Congressman Halleck was so pleased that he even wagged a little levity. Why is the Senate called the Upper House? "When we cut an appropriation they up it." Halleck gagged. Everyone was in a jovial mood...
...many a morning of dreary pedanties. Whether he is engrossed in debunking a scholar who purports to prove that someone else wrote Shakespeare's plays, describing and mimicking that maid-of-all-work, Fielding's Shamela Andrews, or stepping into the role of Charles Lamb's lunatic sister, this jovial son of Maine injects humor, pathos, and human interest into lectures that have earned him the epithet, "a one-man vaudeville show...
...Have an Agreement" era of Franklin Roosevelt and what Marshall called the "Interminable Discussion of Disagreements" at Moscow lay two years of arduous education. Between those two eras was the San Francisco meeting of U.N., the period when Jimmy Byrnes conducted relations with Russia in the jovial tradition of parish-pump politics in South Carolina, when Byrnes sat back and told all who cared to listen that the great thing was to get the other fellow's point of view, when Byrnes saw the U.S. role as that of mediator-until he saw the unreality of that role, quit...
Lauritz Melchior, great Dane of the Metropolitan Opera, sang Open the Door, Richard on a Kay Kyser radio show and got a chromatic catcall from the president of the National Association of Schools of Music for "debasing his art." Pooh, retorted jovial Heldentenor Melchior. If the musical stuffed shirts wanted more blatant examples of undignified monkeyshines, he could refresh their memories. Once, he recalled, he sang a hillbilly song on the Fred Allen show; another time, he danced an Apache number in which he impersonated a female who could have mopped up on Briinnhilde...
Instantly Taft was on his feet to agree. The situation was "composed." Bilbo shuffled down the corridors. Behind him the Senate, suddenly in jovial humor, began swearing in the rest of its new members. Up to the desk Taft escorted his colleague, John Bricker, who blushed like a June bride...