Word: jovialness
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...jovial sort, always calm and collected, Prio is the physical type the Cubans call "criollo"': dark hair (greying at 44), black mustache, a toothpaste-ad smile. He is a neat dresser, a quiet talker. Except for his antiCommunism, he has no platform so far. He promises only to carry on Grau's policies, hoping that the growing anti-Red, anti-Russian feeling, combined with general satisfaction with Grau's record, will be enough to put him in the Palace...
...battered red leather dispatch box were the secrets of Britain's interim budget. Burly, greying John Lees Carvel, political correspondent for London's evening Star, cheerily hailed his old friend Dalton as he approached the door of the House, asked jokingly about the budget. Dalton threw a jovial arm around Carvel's shoulders and, remembering that the journalist liked a nip now & then, said: "John, your whiskey is going to cost you a bit more from now on. You'll have to pay a penny more for your beer, too." Item by item the salient points...
...condescend to ask me, a "Harvard" girl, down to that marvelous Yale school! I've heard so much about, it. Leo's father went to Yale, and to hear him talk-about Mory's,and the huge Gothic buildings, and Mory's and the jovial parties at the fraternities and at Mory's, and the great Yale Bowl, and the beer at Mory's-maybe his father wrote, "Shall I Wastin'". If Yale had a girl's school...
Besides Harrison, jovial team manager who also serves as quarterback on the Jayvees, the rooters heard House master Mason Hammond '25, and responded in song with "Kirklandia" and "10,000 Men of Kirkland...
...A.F.L. Standing on the stage of San Francisco's echoing Civic Center auditorium, he could look out at and appraise the great men of U.S. labor's oldest clan-the hard-eyed and corpulent satraps in serge suits and blucher shoes, the sleek attorneys, the jovial bully boys, and all the delegates, great & small, from all the temples and parishes of craft unionism...