Word: joviality
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...When jovial, ruddy-faced, six-foot Donald Perell Smith suddenly quit as Vultee Aircraft general manager in 1938, airport wiseacres said his luck had run out, figured he was through with aviation for good. Yet last week Don Smith was playing his biggest role ever: president and spark plug of California's Interstate Aircraft & Engineering Corp.-a smart, fast-growing aviation concern which has produced a plane so good the whole aviation industry is buzzing...
...went into the Army in 1940 Joe was the comic-strip symbol of a clean, fighting American. He never fouled an opponent. Now Joe, like any other U.S. soldier, is up against unsporting enemies, and he must learn to kill or be killed. Says Palooka's creator, jovial Cartoonist Ham Fisher: "No good soldier is going to be polite in real war. Why should...
...Coach Dick Harlow has not been his usual jovial self this past week there is good reason for it. The explanation is that he has been worrying about today's game with Dartmouth, for this afternoon Dick Harlow finds himself on the spot...
Willkie left Cairo in a big, drab-painted B-24 bomber, transferred somewhere in Palestine to a Douglas DC-3, flew on to Ankara. There he talked with Turkey's jovial, troubled Premier Sükrü Saracoglu and cool Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu. The visitor left Turkey in full agreement with New York Times Correspondent Ray Brock's cable (approved by the Turkish Foreign Office): "Turkey is firmly anchored alongside the United Nations for the war's duration...
...Litvinoff- "definitely European." "An amazing man-big, jovial, affable, shrewd...