Word: jovially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their comment it was plain that Italy's continued excess of imports over exports has at length roused II Duce to legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...
...James M. Cox, Democratic nominee for President in 1920, shrewd publisher, jovial person...
...Paris. Mr. John W. Ransome as Boul, short for boulevard, nearly lost himself in enthusiasm for his part and shouted his way to fame. As a lightfingered taxi man he harbors much too warm a heart, and the humor for a really humorous part. As Pere Chevillan, a jovial kill or cure purveyor of religion who has laughed with, as well as at the world for so long that the donkey joke won't focus, Mr. W. H. Post also gives a splendid performance...
There is Professor Murdock in English 76 at noon in Harvard 3. He talks of Lancelot Andrewes and Joseph Hall this morning, worthy divines both, and yet jovial souls. Longinus and "The Sublime" is Professor Elton's subject in Comparative Literature 29. Three o'clock is an hour when one might do anything--but it is more than likely that Longinus will attract me to Sever...
During the recent "freak" Canadian election, that jovial Liberal, Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, was astonished to find himself defeated for his own seat in the Canadian House of Commons (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq). He incurred the contemptuous nickname of "Seatless Mac" from his delighted Conservative enemies...