Word: jovialness
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...thrifty Britons dislike lotteries but even more they dislike seeing Britain's strict laws drive £1.000,000 a year out of Britain into Ireland. Last year His Grace the jovial, sporting Duke of Atholl ran his own disguised lottery, got £60.000 for British charities and a £25 fine for himself. To plug up the loophole he had found, the Conservative Government jammed through Parliament a new and stricter...
...Either our genial President stretched the truth in order to be jovial with his new-found comrade, or Sinclair wished to keep the minds of the reporters off embarrassing ground...
Turk Edwards, the tribe has a tackle considered the greatest that ever tred on a gridiron but now the 260-pound Edwards has a real running mate capable of playing brilliant football the entire 60-minutes of the game. The jovial Boswell of the campus is a terror in action and promises to be the outstanding line recruit of the 1934 professional season...
...jovial Irishman named Victor Herbert (Mlle Modiste) and an ex-U. S. Marine Corps bandmaster named John Philip Sousa ("The Stars and Stripes Forever") founded A. S. C. A. & P. to collect royalties for songwriters and com posers whose works were then being bandied from one cafe to another with never a penny's profit to the men who made them. At first it was uphill sledding bu. Victor Herbert had a smart attorney named Nathan Burkan and a willing helper named Eugene Howard Buck, who collaborated on 20 Ziegfeld Follies. Under George Maxwell, its first president, and now under...
From thousands of county agents bumping over back roads inspecting crops, talking to farmers and smalltown bankers, the Crop Reporting Board in Washington last week received the year's most important reports. Led by William Forrest Callander, a jovial, blue-eyed gentleman who was a dirt farmer before he studied law at Georgetown, the Board took its secrets into a room high up in the Agriculture building, locked itself in until its tabulations were completed and its guesses made. Frosted glass windows prevented so much as an eyewink to the outside world. In the centre of another room...