Word: joviality
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Mexican Ambassador Seņor Don Manuel C. Tellez, a young up-from-the-ranks diplomat famed for his sharp humor. A short man with glistening black hair and classic Spanish features, he is the discreetly jovial host at many a lavish entertainment at the Mexican Embassy...
...broke a window pane on the 13th floor of El Paso's First National Bank. Also in El Paso, a two-year-old U. S. girlchild, Miss Lydia Roberts, was killed by a second stray bullet, and a third despatched "the most popular U. S. citizen in Juarez," jovial "Teddy" Barnes, bartender of the famed Mint Cafe. With a bank, a baby and a bartender all involved, General George Van Horn Moseley went into action...
Conservatives have been grooming "Old Gwilym" for years in his role of bait, have twice tried and failed to get him elected to Parliament from a worker constituency, are trying again. In 1927 he championed with jovial humbuggery the Trade Dispute's Act-probably the most tyrannical piece of legislation ever passed in England to squelch strikes...
...last week's service the House, taken somewhat unaware, was reasonably full. Two speeches were delivered, one by jovial, wavy-haired Charles Aubrey Eaton, onetime Baptist pastor of John D. Rockefeller's Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland, now a New Jersey Representative; the other by Democratic Leader Finis James Garrett. The Marine Band played sacred music. The Imperial Male Quartet sang hymns. Chaplain Montgomery prayed at length. House Clerk Page read the roster of the dead: Vaile of Colorado, Madden of Illinois, Sweet of New York, Butler of Pennsylvania, Rathbone of Illinois, Frothingham of Massachusetts, Rubey of Missouri, Oldfield...
Caricaturist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, born in London 54 years ago, deserted art school for "literary work." His genius is for turning platitudes into epigrams and vice versa; his reputation, for making paradoxes. Indolent, jovial, fat, he has been described as a "hansom cabful"; and the story runs that one day in a tram he rose, offered his seat to three women...