Word: joviality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Neal Ball, 76, jovial onetime shortstop for the Cleveland Naps (later the Indians), first major leaguer to stage an unassisted triple play; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. On July 9, 1909, with visiting Red Sox runners on first and second, Ball made a diving catch of a line drive for one out, fell on second for two, recovered and tagged the first-base runner for three...
...coalition, pending next spring's general elections, was what Italians call a "single color" government-an all-Christian Democratic Cabinet which, since it would lack an assured majority in the Chamber of Deputies, could probably only survive by ducking controversial issues. At President Giovanni Gronchi's request, jovial Adone Zoli agreed to do his best to form such a government...
Rick's Cafe Americain, whose proprietor wears a white dinner jacket, speaks with a faint lisp, and drinks a great deal when unhappy, sports an odd assortment of minor characters; they are bit parts, from which the actors have squeezed everything. Fat Sidney Greenstreet, with fez, is Farrari, the jovial "leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca." Peter Lorre is a funny, intense worm who sells blackmarket visas to refugees stranded in the unoccupied French city; the producers could afford to lead him off screaming after fifteen minutes: but in that time he created a lasting figure...
Back at his Pentagon desk for the first time since his prostate operation, jovial Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson sorted through a pile of well-wishers' messages, waved one that especially tickled him: "Dear Sir: I wouldn't vote Republican for less than $100,000 . . . but I like you and hope you get well soon. [Signed] A Democrat." "Engine Charlie" later allowed that he was feeling fine and drew guffaws from reporters by boomeranging a bit of Democratic drollery about the health issue. "I might flippantly say," quipped Wilson, "that I'm qualified...
...neglected to instruct his 20,000 state employees to 1) contribute the traditional 2% of their salaries to the Democratic campaign fund, 2) help get out the vote. Last week, though he made it a point to greet President Eisenhower on his arrival in Lexington, the jovial Happy pointedly announced that he would have a previous engagement when Adlai Stevenson comes a-calling...