Word: joviality
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...matter. Dignity, majesty, and beautiful gloom, rather than brilliant skimming coloured parabolas, provide the keynote of his style." With his tall, elegant stoop and long golden beard, Christopher had the aspect of a late Roman emperor, and it was this aspect, apparently, that on one fateful occasion tempted the jovial prince to empty a glass of brandy on his head at dinner. Said Christopher, never batting an eye, "As Your Royal Highness pleases." The guests were convulsed. The prince had made a wonderful comic discovery and, "having enjoyed the great game of sousing Christopher once, he wanted to have...
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Henry Adams remarked, "was a child of Benvenuto Cellini, smothered in an American cradle." Saint-Gaudens certainly lacked Cellini's proud fire; in his prime he was a jovial, auburn-bearded member of 15 clubs-a frock-coated good fellow of the sort that two world wars have made as nearly extinct as the buffalo-who roared out popular ballads while he worked, and finished the day with dinner at Delmonico's. And unlike the supremely articulate Florentine, Saint-Gaudens simply could not talk about art; he was afraid, he explained, that he would...
Died. Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, 82, portly, jovial landowner (69,000 acres), sports patron, first of his line since 1787 to win his family's namesake horse race (with Sansovino in 1924; twice Secretary of State for War (1916-18, 1922-24); in Prescot, Lancashire, England...
Jealous of how tough their own comp was, editors often try to sabotage the candidates by making it easier for them. The candidates often fight back in increased effort and hard work, making for occasional jovial tension. But tension draws the wire finer, according to an old CRIMSON proverb on the Great Beer Mug, and makes for finer editors...
Edward Asbury O'Neal III is no dirt farmer. A jovial man with a Southern planter's courtliness, he likes good clothes, good living and glittery functions. He habitually has two bourbon toddies before dinner and is equally at ease wielding a salad fork or a gavel ("Let's us folks give that gennaman from Miss'ippi a chance to say what's botherin...