Word: joviality
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...best-known policeman in France is dapper, jovial Jean Chiappe, Paris's bowler-hatted Prefect. Last week the second best-known French policeman, meticulous Gaston Edmond Bayle, was shot three times in the back and died instanter...
...days later a cavalcade of jovial Greek bandits rode over the mountainous divide into Albania, foregathered in the cellar of the leading Greek restaurant in the Albanian capital of Tirana. There the bandit leader, one Constantine Bogdanopoulos, ordered Italian champagne and lamb kidneys broiled on skewers, flung on the table a money belt from which spilled many a drachma, and, later in the evening, boastfully unmasked to a pop-eyed Albanian journalist the mystery of Kopra...
...Roving Reporter, sunk in reminiscent dreams, had all but decided that colleges, college men and college furniture were as they had always been, when he noticed three jovial students carrying an unfamiliar apparatus along the pathway under the shade of the time-hallowed elm trees...
...heads of the 55 states represented at the Assembly of the League of Nations had been invited?only those from the 27 countries broadly classifiable as "European"*. As a jovial host to these diplomatic neighbors M. Briand had unfolded a little further his imposing scheme for a "United States of Europe" (TIME, Sept...
...opulent estancieros whose ranches cover most of Argentina the smartest rendezvous on earth is El Jockey Club in sophisticated Buenos Aires. One night last week the sumptuously baroque club was con fiesta for some jovial Britons. Champagne popped and sizzled. Frankly the Britons admitted they were out for Argentine trade. Hospitably they were toasted and cheered. "Welcome! Welcome to Argentina!" cried Dr. Joaquin Sanchez de Anchorena, oldtime toastmaster of El Club. "I cannot praise too highly British achievement in stock-raising and horse-breeding. Rest assured we are ready to give preferential attention to the aims of your economic mission...