Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, 61, burly, jovial secretary and longtime military aide (since 1933) to Franklin Roosevelt; from a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard a cruiser returning with the President from the Yalta Conference (see U.S. AT WAR). His duties included combing the White House appointment list (reputedly he could make "no" sound like "yes"), fishing with the President and lending him his right arm in public (he eventually acquired a deft, left-handed salute). Said Franklin Roosevelt : "I shall miss him almost more than I can express...
Encouraged by jovial U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, the Communists' ace negotiator, smart, suave General Chou Enlai, had flown down from Yenan for one more try after almost a year of bootless words over issues as broad as China itself. For two weeks he had talked long and earnestly with Chungking's ace negotiator, scholarly, liberal Information Minister Wang Shih-chieh...
...years big, jovial, redheaded Paul Tasse, 56, has been the talkative boss barber in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier barbershop. Now he and his wife were celebrating 35 years of marriage. Routhier School's hall was rented for the occasion and bedecked with barber poles. Prime Minister King helped welcome guests. Between homey speeches, an orchestra played selections from Barber of Seville...
Said Stanza I: In Mazatlán, a tall man masked like the other dancers at fhe Carnival ball shot jovial Loaiza through the head. Two Americans were murdered when they tried to prevent the man's escape. Rodolfo Valdez, 28, known as El Gitano, took to the hills...
...musical wanderings as Maurice, an orchestra leader "who was brought up on Pernod instead of mother's milk"; Boris, a violinist who "occasionally [ate] caviar with his right hand, playing a stunning pizzicato sequence with his left" Monsieur Arnould, a music director who had something "of the jovial, placid, dignity of the bull fiddle" he once played; Franzl, an amateur pianist whose reason for living was the hope that some day he might work on Wall Street (he owned six inches of genuine New York ticker tape...