Word: jollyness
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When Air Vice-Marshal D'Aeth an nounced his intention to enter the ministry at the farewell dinner given him on his retirement from the R.A.F., "it spoiled a jolly good evening. No one knew how to treat me afterwards." But such announcements are growing less unusual all the...
Thomas Whitbread publishes seven of his poems, poems that give a tolerant and patient look at life and nature, a look simply and often beautifully expressed. Whitbread's work has a raffish, sentimental quality about it; the poetry dotes on objects familiar to everyone, and a reader is not ashamed...
Fisk differed from other robber barons in that he looked the part and played it with scandalous ebullience. Skinny, gloomy Partner Drew was a Bible banger who would retreat to his house, bar the doors and pray; but Jim Fisk was fat and jolly as a carnival pig. Part of...
"We need men, and Harvard has a good supply," a 'Cliffie on the technical crew commented. Her attitude differed sharply from that expressed by members of two Radcliffe dormitories, Barnard and Briggs, which recently cancelled their spring jolly-ups because of "unwanted visitors."
A girl from Barnard explained that the Harvard men who attend jolly-ups are "generally undesirable." Discussing the seven dorms which have held or are planning jolly-ups, another, from Briggs, said "chacun a son gout," and mused over the possibility of buying a ping-pong table with the money...