Word: jovialness
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...Herbert Hartley, wife of the famed and jovial captain of the Leviathan, a son (10 lb.); at Opelika...
Dearly Beloved:--We have met together on this mournful occasion to perform the sad offices over one whose long and honored life was put an end to in a sudden and violent manner. Last year at this very time, in this very place, our poor friend's round, jovial appearance, (Slightly swollen perhaps) and the elasticity of his movements, gave promise of many more years to be added to a long life, which even then eclipsed the "Oldest graduates...
...have showered us continually with brickbats of advice, I feel that several opportunities have been neglected. Not that I want to criticize: as yet I have felt no ill effects from the punch served at the Union's Freshman Reception, nor have I encountered any antediluvian phenomena since the jovial Phillips Brooks House reception. Still I feel sure that if Dean Whitney had for two long weeks, day and night, been submitted to the none too tender mercies of those pertinacious individuals who swarm around the Freshman dormitories with pressing contracts from 'The Varmint' and "The Varlet,' he would either...
...results of its own success." He spoke of the schools now growing up around liberal arts nuclei at universities as definitely vocational in character and effective in operation. By comparison, the liberal arts nuclei are of low intellectual tone, their students concealing beneath an assumed pride in a jovial, carefree life, the black despair of an inferiority complex...
...business of being a waiter in New York is no joke. Last week one member of the profession was precipitated from the ninth story of a hotel by a group of jovial actors singing "Out the window he must go"; and now comes the still more painful report that sixty others were held up in a cafe and despoiled of $12,000 in tips, a pint of whiskey, and a pair of new shoelaces...