Word: joviality
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...company wore dinner coats (black ties). Had each man made, upon the white space below his chin, that series of penstrokes by which he subsists, the dumbest bellhop would have caught the evening's drift. Under the florid, jovial chin of an overgrown urchin chewing a cigar, for example, might have been sketched a domestic scene so provocatively platitudinous that no lettering would have been necessary to interpret it as "Ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?" or "When a feller needs a friend...
...jovial group that amused itself with "hockey sticks, copper kettles, pieces of coal and other things" seems to have furnished no cause for sanguinary conflict. The only specified damage was to property, particularly windows. It is safe to imagine, however, that the members of the Bullingdon Club are satisfied with their night's work. It is still uncertain what methods were used to "peacify" the Oxford students, but from accounts there are no broken bones and there is no effort to press the matter...
Naturally no comparison can be drawn between the Laundress-Empress and Mrs. Rosa Lewis.* The Seventh Edward, though jovial, was no such humorist as Peter the Great. He merely liked his tidbits well prepared. When Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented her cook, Mrs. Rosa Lewis,± to Edward VII (the Prince of Wales) and told him she was a good cook he never doubted it. "Damme," said Edward, "She takes more pains with a cabbage than with a chicken. . . . She gives me nothing sloppy, nothing colored up to dribble...
Here the cries of the caged creatures forced the jovial jester to abandon speech for action. Freed eventually from his trusteeship by the lethal nature of his ward's actions, he continued by explaining that for years he had worked with live animals and that he loved them. "Even Freddle, and I are old friends," he concluded...
...Pavel the Daredevil" it was, who, at 26, big, jovial and reckless, won over the sailors of the Baltic fleet to Bolshevism and thus sealed the doom of Alexander Kerensky. Returning to Moscow a hero, he enraged such serious-minded Communists as Lenin and Trotsky by light-heartedly dragging off to his bed and board a lady undeniably fair but old enough to be his mother. The great Lenin, scandalized at his philandering in an hour of crisis, very nearly had the hero shot, and Leon Trotsky was especially loud in demanding his execution. Next day a mob of sailors...