Word: joviality
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Maxence d'Entremont was a big, jovial man with a big round head, no hair, a prominent brow, wide shoulders, a deep chest, long legs and almost no neck. When the doorbell rang in the morning he would shout: "The police!" When he led his daughter across the street he would say: "Let's keep together; it will cost them more to run over two persons." He could sketch brilliantly, but would not. He fought 17 duels...
...Hold the Cork." Not until some time after Christmas Day did residents of Manila begin to feel real anxiety. Up to that time bleary-eyed Americans stood in jovial groups around Manila's bars. Skittish ones started a run on stores, buying out bandages, iodine, flashlights. A retired major began to see Japs crawling out of whiskey bottles and had to be confined as a nervous case. But everyone was sure that help was on the way. MacArthur beamed with pride over a congratulatory message from President Roosevelt: "Keep up the good work...
Killed in Action. First Lieut. Peter Gerald Lehman, 27, eldest son of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Director Herbert Henry Lehman, roommate of top-flight U.S. Ace Captain Don Gentile; in the crash of his fighter plane; somewhere in England. Powerful, popular, jovial Lehman, a football player at Lehigh (ex-'40), joined the R.C.A.F. after having been rejected (because he was married) by the Army & Navy Air Corps, served 18 months of active service in England as a sergeant-pilot before transferring to the U.S.A.A.F. as a flight officer. He had completed 57 combat missions, been awarded...
...Bedroom. The President was jovial. He announced cheerfully he had decided to veto the new tax bill. He proceeded to read excerpts from his veto message. A three-against-one argument promptly boiled up. While Wallace sat silent, Barkley, Rayburn and McCormack vigorously tried to persuade the President to change his mind. A veto, they argued, would simply mean throwing away more than two billion dollars in revenue. Why not let this bill become law without his signature? A veto would stir up fresh bitterness in an already restless and resentful Congress...
Jorge ("Coke") Délano is a peppery, jovial, chunky Latin of 47, whose chief claim to distinction is not that he is a distant cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt* but that he is founder-owner-publisher-editor and No. 1 caricaturist of one of South America's most engrossing magazines...