Word: jovialness
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...several days the wires hummed merrily about millions. Then suddenly jovial Dr. Hilferding was jerked up short by brusque Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank. A watchman of Germany's cash drawer, Dr. Schacht barked that he would not O.K. the loan. Scareheads in the Berlin press screamed that Dr. Hilferding would have to resign because now his budget would not balance. There were predictions that the Cabinet was due to fall...
Slim, aristocratic Louis Alexandré Taschereau, Premier of Quebec, and bluff, jovial George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario, met in Montreal last week to talk about the price of paper. For Canada the occasion was vital. Of all Canadian industries, largest and most important is the manufacture of cheap, impermanent newsprint for U. S. dailies...
...Gates last week gave his congregation jovial news. Said he: "Saints are everywhere. Everyone here is a saint. In visiting prisons I find saints. A saint is anybody in the world trying to do the best he can with the help...
...absolute equals, colleagues under the Crown. Loud pealed the carillon in the great Gothic peace tower of Canada's Parliament House. Smartly Scot MacDonald was driven to be received by the personal representative of George V in Canada, vice-regal Viscount Willingdon (salary $50,000*). After luncheon chubby, jovial astute Mr. King suggested a motor ride, 25 miles out into the Gatineau hills to "Kingsmere," his country home. There, as with President Hoover beside the rushing Rapidan, Mr. MacDonald found an open hearth, a crackling log fire. Canadians hoped that during the long chat which followed he gave...
...change, to what Clerk of the House William Tyler Page was reading from the rostrum in his clear rapid voice, which usually rings out over the Representatives' heads as though it (or they) had nothing to do with the case The Clerk was reading a letter from jovial rubicund Speaker Nicholas Longworth, who was prolonging his vacation (in Cincinnati). The letter designated Mr. Longworth's substitute, the Speaker Pro Tem. When Clerk Page stopped reading, up came the Representatives' hands to clap as loudly as they could for a slim, smiling little lady in neat black...