Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander, 60. He had been First Lord twice before, once under Churchill. Sound, jovial and popular, First Lord Alexander likes to bang on the piano while he sings Clementine and Little Brown Jug, could also be counted on to bang through the war against Japan...
...Asor Island became the headquarters of the ATCOM (atoll commander), short, jovial Commodore Oliver Owen ("Scrappy") Kessing...
...Chicago Daily News's ace of whimsy, round and jovial Bob (Robert J.) Casey, is no man to sit around waiting for strange and wonderful things to happen. Once, when he heard that a couple of scientists were to climb to a Grand Canyon plateau never before trod by man, he flew over it dropping old whiskey bottles and Ford parts for the amazed scientists to find. More recently, as a roving war correspondent, he has had no trouble finding stories worth reporting...
Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army was General Douglas MacArthur's invaluable Team No. 2 in the Philippine campaign. Built up quietly in New Guinea by big, jovial Ike Eichelberger with a staff which started training in Ben Lear's old Second Army, the Eighth went into action as an identified army late in January. The 38th Division and elements of the 24th piled ashore north of Bataan, went on to take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove...
...neighbors. He gave the kids cokes and ice cream, and took them for rides in his big black automobile. At Christmas he invited 60 of them to dinner, gave them firemen's helmets and cowboy hats. If anybody needed coal, money or clothes for their children, jovial Father Norman was glad to provide them. After ten years the neighborhood came to feel that the Mission-whatever its religion-was a solid institution...