Word: jovially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evenings; that is because this particular tradition is not especially worth while perpetuating. Nor is Mr. Conant the bell-ringer likely to awake some winter morning to find the clapper of his bell frozen to the sides by President Lowell, for obviously, this also is one of those jovial performances which, genuinely humorous the first time, rapidly becomes mere routine, without any better excuse for itself than an empty and eventually boresome precedent. There is, never theless, a rich and colorful store of Harvard history which the Society could most suitably disseminate among the surprisingly unenlightened undergraduates...
...Dean Stone was rubicund, smooth-shaven, cheerful-a jovial good fellow in any other atmosphere, I thought. And keen! Startling questions popped out of his mouth, several times leaving me gasping weakly like a fish and chasing my poor brains in a jog-trot down a dusty, cloudy track. He had me in front of him,. hat in hand, at attention with a confounded stenographer peering at my face with the watchfulness of a setter dog whenever my answers were slow in issuing. I wish I had a transcript of the testimony, for when I emerged I found I couldn...
...rubber and tire companies are not just now in a very jovial mood. Kelly-Springfield's statement for the year ending Dec. 31, 1923, is, to some extent at least, typical of the industry...
Lampy played the jovial host last evening to graduates, honorary members, all the deans from University Hall, President Lowell, and many more. The Graduates' Dinner, with its distinguished guests, is the Lampoon's most festive of occasions...
...editorials which formerly issued from the liberal pen of Simeon Strunsky had gone?for Mr. Strunsky had departed to The New York Times. In their place was the form and, in good part, the editorial substance of the Ledger. The Bowling Green, on which Christopher Morley played so many jovial games of literary nine pins, had been subdivided into small lots, on which Clinton W. Gilbert, author of The Mirrors of Washington ana correspondent of the Ledger, paragraphed with brutal frankness about Washington politics. Last but not least, the face value of the issue was changed from...