Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collaborators. Co-author Infeld is a distinguished theoretical physicist in his own right. A tall, jovial man with irregular teeth and the lumpy physique of a sedentary scholar, he speaks English with a heavy accent, but fluently and well. Born 40 years ago in Cracow, Poland, he studied at Cracow's ancient university and in Berlin, lectured in Lwów, spent some years in England's Cambridge as a Rockefeller fellow, joined the Institute at Princeton in 1936. In Cambridge he helped Physicist Max Born, another German exile (now at Edinburgh), in the formulation of a field...
...when ruddy, jovial Jim Curley was Mayor of Boston, a city water connection burst, flooding the premises of General Equipment Corp. From Ernest Wr. Brown Co., its insurance agency. General Equipment collected $70,199.29. The agency salvaged $15,488.15 worth of equipment, was left $54,711.14 out of pocket. Thereupon the agency, represented by Lawyer Santosuosso. sued the City, settled its claim out of court for $85,000 of taxpayers' money...
These quarters the editors shared with the newborn Saturday Review of Literature. Partitions between the two offices did not reach to the ceiling and sometimes TIME'S editors were disturbed by jovial Christopher Morley coming to call on the Saturday Review's editors (Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Amy Loveman, William Rose Benét), bringing his welcome in the form of a bottle of whiskey which he opened by pounding on a desk until its cork came...
...tentatively bid up commodities and stocks. When the day of the event arrived, the press, 125 strong, trooped into the President's oval office; they found it rigged up, as one reporter murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part of the lesson...
From the solid shoulders of ruddy, jovial Sportsman John Grenville Bates the responsibility of picking best in snow slid like water from a spaniel's back. Against one of the same sturdy shoulders a gun butt is often set, for John Bates can spare enough time from his Wall Street brokerage business (Taylor, Bates & Co.) to hunt woodcock, grouse, pheasant at the ancient Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club in Pike County, Pa., to shoot in South Carolina and the Florida fiats. He finds time also to be President of Manhattan's Leash Club, of the Morris County...