Word: joviality
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When Duncan explores a field filled with eerie Druids' stones, Gerald accosts him in clouded anger, then mutters, "I suppose you had to come here sooner or later." The boy begins to sense that there are two Uncle Geralds: one normal and jovial, the other dark and menacing...
...honorary deputy sheriff. In the next few days he lunched with Fan Dancer Sally Rand at the Junior Chamber of Commerce, judged a beauty contest, went to a Neiman-Marcus fashion show, played jazz piano for the girls at a local prep school and lunched with the Rotarians. For jovial New Jersey-born Hendl, it was all part of his new job as conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra...
Adenauer lives quietly in a white, comfortable house amid the vineyards near Bonn, with the three youngest of his seven children. Colleagues sometimes take jovial pokes at his bourgeois dignity. When Adenauer argued against Frankfurt as capital for the new republic because he thought it an "immoral city," a fellow politician cracked: "Dr. Adenauer, we assure you, we are smart enough to protect ourselves from those pitfalls that you escape by virtue of your...
Various University officials and their wives were scattered around the room, and around each was a tight circle of car-leaning freshmen. Throughout the room the recent Boston election was a conversational favorite. "Well, I'll say one thing," said one jovial official, "Curley wouldn't live to be 120 if he were an athletic director...
...antidote to grumpy Jesse's grim career. Author Horan fills out his last hundred pages with the story of another Pinkerton-pestered train robber, jovial Butch Cassidy, whose fun-loving Wild Bunch operated out of Hole in the Wall, Wyo. in the 1890s. Author Horan thinks Butch's story is "more colorful and daring," but most readers will disagree. Even debunked, Jesse James is still the feature attraction in any Wild West show...