Word: jovialness
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...years the right to export capital and invest it abroad has been denied to Frenchmen by the law of April 3, 1918. Evasions, numerous, have always been severely punished when detected. Last week this intolerable, emergency damaging of the flow of capital was ended by plump, jovial President Gaston Doumergue who signed a decree lifting the capital embargo...
...Oklahoma, mayor of Claremont, California, the humorist has been so long an important critic of politics that his qualifications as a practitioner are worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings, or even Abraham Lincoln, people are saying. And his wit is surpassed only by his esoteric knowledge of his chosen field...
...sarcophagi across the Marion cemetery where they had rested temporarily, President Harding's since 1923, Mrs. Harding's since 1926. Baptist ritual was read. Then guardsmen of the Tenth Infantry took their posts and the Marionites went home, again full of love and admiration for the jovial, handsome man whom today's young men and women of Marion can remember as a fond patter of heads and chucker of chins when he was Marion's leading citizen, then Ohio's Lieutenant Governor, then a U. S. Senator and finally that incomprehensibly great man, the President of the United States...
Each morning thousands of Britons turn to the Telegraph's sporting page and scan attentively whatever appears above the enigmatic signature "B. B." Under that monogram writes jovial, astute Benjamin Bennison?and on the staff there have been constantly not a few journalists of nearly equal fame...
...father of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand was the jovial keeper of a cozy inn at Nantes. The son at first became a barrister, defending poor clients who sought him at the inn. Strangely this scene was re-enacted last week in Geneva. Clients: representatives of all the Powers and half the nations of Europe. Briand: still Briand. Inn: the white, sumptuous Hotel des Bergues, overlooking Lac Leman and Overlooked by Towering Mont Blanc...