Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kalimpong's main social center is the Himalayan Hotel, operated by the Mac-Donalds, a jovial Scottish-Tibetan family, who organize Saturday night parties liberally spiced with unusual conversation and hot millet beer. On one recent occasion, in the dining room, a Buddhist Englishwoman thought that she recognized another woman guest. "I beg your pardon," she said, "but haven't we met in a previous incarnation?" "Yes," was the reply, "I believe we have. I was Joan of Arc and you were my brother." The Englishwoman drew herself up haughtily. 'Certainly not," she snapped, "I have never...
They looked a little self-conscious among the habituees of the establishment, so Mrs. Moriarty invited them into the family sitting room. The rotund and jovial Frank and his kindly, and equally heavy, wife put forth a hospitality that had not been expected by the weary college revellers. They stayed longer than they had planned--about 80 years longer...
Into Thorez' place went Jacques Duclos, shrewdly jovial, a skilled parliamentarian. Duclos, leader of the Red deputies in the chamber, could be hard as nails-as he proved when he headed the Red underground during the Nazi occupation. Or-and this is particularly important now-he could be as smoothly persuasive as an insurance salesman...
...Eugene Millikin, jovial, conservative G.O.P. stalwart, showed surprising strength in defeating Fair Dealer John Carroll in Colorado. ¶ Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin and Homer Capehart of Indiana, three conservative Midwest Republicans, beat their Fair Deal opponents. Three members of the G.O.P.'s progressive wing, Oregon's Wayne Morse, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey and Vermont's George Aiken, also won handily...
Died. General Kuniaki Koiso, 70, one of the fanatic militarists who led the Japanese Empire into war and destruction; of a chest tumor; in Tokyo, where he was serving time on a life sentence for war crimes. Wizened, jovial Warmonger Koiso commanded Japan's famed Kwantung army in Manchuria, earned the title "The Tiger" because of his cat's eyes and ruthless behavior as governor general of Japanese-occupied Korea...