jollity
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To promote means to cheat anyone "of a dollar, or any fraction or multiple thereof." and the essence of praise in the Jollity Building is, "he has promoted some very smart people."
From Time Magazine Archive
Some leading Jollity Building denizens: �Acid Test Ike, who manages punch-drunk fighters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here shall you see how Fellowship and Jollity, Both Strength, Pleasure, and Beauty, Will fade from thee as flower in May.
From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest
In 1672 "London Triumphant, or the City in Jollity and Splendour," was the title of Jordan's pageant for Sir Robert Hanson, of the Grocers' Company.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
There is with him no Occasion for Superfluity at Meals, for Jollity in Company, in a word, for any thing extraordinary to administer Delight to him.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
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