Word: jovialness
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False Teeth. On the hustings. Sir Roy ("Royboy" to his jovial white audiences) is a shouting, sweating but engaging demagogue, his inevitable red suspenders maintaining a tenuous hold on his tentlike trousers. When his speech grows indistinct, he merrily apologizes for his badly fitting false teeth. He accuses Britain of "pandering to pan-Africanism." has called London's Lancaster House, where the Rhodesian constitutional conferences took place, "that place of infamy...
...Family. It seemed time to try another field. Turning to politics, Tshombe put to use his two big assets. One was a jovial, easy charm. The other was his father-in-law; young Moise had married the daughter of Bako Ditende, a prominent chief of the Lunda tribe, later to become Mwata Yamvo Ditende Yawa Nawezi III, supreme ruler of all the Lunda. Ditende's influence helped when Tshombe sought and won a seat on the Elisabethville city council (a tame advisory body under the thumb of the Belgian provincial governor) in 1947, then moved up to the Katanga...
...jovial hero of this Horatio Alger story is Charles W. Lubin, 58, president of the Kitchens of Sara Lee. Like all Alger heroes, Lubin ascribes his success to a simple formula: Lubin makes what Lubin likes. What stocky Charley Lubin likes are diet-defying coffee cakes, cheesecakes, chocolate cakes and pound cakes-all loaded with calorie-packed butter and topped wherever possible with sugar icings and pecans. And Lubin's taste for rich, high-quality baked goods is clearly widely shared. Now the most profitable subsidiary of Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. (other brands: Monarch, Hires), Sara...
Because Mr. Angus Wilson is, among many other things, an acute chronicler of the Welfare State, he has incurred the unfortunate label of "traditional novelist"--the nastiest epithet in the current critical lexicon. Mr. Wilson's novels are by this means arbitrarily damned to comparisons with the matronly, jovial and encyclopaedic shades (respectively) of George Eliot, Charles Dickens and John Galsworthy...
...President Thomas Cyril Fogarty, 57. A whip-smart packaging expert who has been at Continental for 32 years, Fogarty will keep mobilized the battle units that General Clay set up to overcome rival American Can Co.'s sales dominance in the can industry. But aides expect the jovial Fogarty to relax Clay's iron discipline a little...