Word: jocular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brokers were far more pessimistic than businessmen. Being, especially in the lower ranks, a provincially Manhattan lot, they seemed to think the Stockmarket would be disgraced if Business did not humbly follow its lead. Outside of lower Manhattan, Detroit was the gloomiest spot, the depths being reached by the jocular motor executive who seemed to feel that never again would any U. S. citizen be able to buy anything except a Ford. Following are three typical "results" variously predicted...
Bellhops. Scandalous to logically and literally minded Latins was the jocular organization, last week, by associates and assistants of the U.S. delegation, of what they proceeded to call "The Bellhops' Club." With untempered levity the self-styled "Hops" elected as their "Chief Bellhop" the famed Yankee lawyer who as Commissioner General of the League of Nations for Hungary stabilized the finances of that nation−Jeremiah Smith Jr. By-laws provide for the "exclusion of any Bellhop caught working," and the purpose of the organization seemed to be frequent luncheons at the Hotel George V de luxe seat...
...motor cars whirled up to House Doom, all the adult Princes except two covered their faces to avoid being photographed. The exceptions were Wilhelm's eldest son Wilhelm and his eldest son Wilhelm, sometimes called by jocular Germans "Wilhelm III" and "Wilhelm...
Major General Malone is 56, short, jocular, optimistic, and likely to be as much of a favorite with the 10,000 Philippine soldiers as he was with the discriminating fighting men of the St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne & Chateau Thierry offensives. Because he pursued famed Rebel Aguinaldo (1899-1901), he knows well the swamps and morasses of the Philippines. But, above all, he is the ardently romantic alumnus of the sheer grey towers of West Point. He has written five novels of life at the Military Academy...
...Whom Mr. Levine calls "Greatest man in the world." †Baseless reports that Mr. Levine denied that he was a Jew while abroad arose from his jocular mention of the fact that he was born on St. Patrick...