Word: jovialness
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...District Attorney sought in vain for some more serious motive than the small-town newspaper feud which had been developing since jovial, backslapping, man-of-the-world McCracken went to Alturas three years ago and shortly afterward started his mimeographed daily in opposition to the 42-year-old printed weekly which motherly Mrs. French edits...
...derived from putting characters through revealing paces if the characters are not intrinsically interesting. Mr. Allen's creations are rather shadowy, tedious things. One character out of the ten, however, redeems the play, and demonstrates that the author can create, at least within narrow limits. This is a jovial Irish lawyer named O'Neill, who admits that he has plenty of brains but no character, and is therefore no good. He is altogether of the Sidney Carton pattern, except that at the last minute he is cheated of his opportunity to die heroically. He it is who in the dark...
...acquired this necessity from U. S. Gypsum Co. in the person of Sewell Lee Avery. Spiegel's found it in the family. Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., ten years out of Dartmouth, had been making money in the apparel department when most other departments were falling fast. Big, jovial Board Chairman "M. J. Sr." gave him the job of general manager...
...Jovial, grey-haired, leather-faced Major Tuttle was a Boston lawyer before he joined the Army in the War. His three high-school horses, Vast, Si Murray and Olympic, can each do 135 different tricks. Each trick has a technical name like the piaffé (trotting on one spot), the passage (highly accentuated trot with slight forward movement). His horses get neither beatings for punishment nor carrots for reward. The best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight...
...Ipswich the judge who will hear the Simpson suit this week is jovial, golfing Sir John Anthony Hawke, who was for five years attached to the present King in the capacity of Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. Assuming that Sir John grants the divorce, any technical flaw in this decision can be discovered only by another of Edward VIII's officials, the King's Proctor. The Ipswich assizes open this week but those at Norwich opened last week, with Sir John presenting his traditional spectacle of royal pomp. Up he walked with the Mayor, local judges...