When, in a jolly tale, a boy sees half a man fall down the chimney, are you supposed to get upset?
At Christie's, Boris Kustodiev's iconic 1923 painting "The Coachman" depicts a jolly Russian in a voluminous, bright-blue winter costume, arms out in a welcoming gesture.
Male colleagues saw that inquiry as a "jolly" and a chance to meet celebrity hacking victim Sienna Miller, she said.
Mr Danto, a jolly, bearded man with a self-deflating sense of humour and an old-fashioned taste in clothes, is the last sort of person you would think of as an authority-figure in the world of contemporary art.
But Jolly was a local hero for trying, and people celebrated his accomplishments long after.
The Bone Jolly, a Gamay grown in California, was light and pleasant with bright cherry fruit more basic Beaujolais than would-be Pinot Noir.
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But the 22% of the UK population evaluated as illiterate - a figure described by Dr Jolly as "a real shocker" - means that any advances in education are overshadowed by this persistent weakness.
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This was originally a jolly country custom which entails the seller of sheep or cattle spitting on a penny, passing it to the buyer who then rubs it on his sleeve, making his new beasts lucky.
Of course the military came away from the war thinking it was a jolly good system.
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It's also the best way for the city's nosiest neighbors to have a jolly good snoop.
On Friday, I had an opportunity to ask Jolly and Logsdon a few questions about the Fortnightly piece.
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To suppress the free conduct of affairs between consenting individuals without a jolly good reason is, frankly, not cricket.
Internationally, the report calls for what Mr Jolly describes as a Marshall Plan for the very poor, spread over 20 years.
If the bar is in a jolly mood, everybody starts talking twice-twice.
The Chief Adjudicator for England and Wales, Caroline Sheppard, is a jolly, no-nonsense barrister, who designed the appeal system more than 10 years ago.
He already has a Jolly Roger brand, which he savors, and he may not believe that the opprobrium of British regulators can possibly threaten that brand.
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Some exhausted negotiators might count that a jolly good thing.
Ms Sheehy is a jolly, motherly presence who cares about men, and is worried that most of those she meets in her special focus groups seem to fall apart at 40.
I'm certainly not looking for a jolly somewhere.
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He could be choking on a Jolly Rancher.
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This is all rather a jolly story.
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Two years ago in his book Author Unknown Foster argued that the curmudgeonly Moore's writing was full of words like "dread" and "strife, " By contrast, argued Foster, Livingston was a jolly fellow whose comic verse was much more like the famous poem.
Trog, aka Wally Fawkes, has her as a jolly knockabout figure with tombstone teeth pulling pints in the bar of the TV soap "EastEnders, " but the angry brigade, Martin Rowson and Steve Bell of the Guardian and Dave Brown of the Independent, emphasize the grotesque.
She was kind of a welcome sight, jolly and bathed, done up like a tropical bird in a vivid silk wrap.
Phone records show Mr Martin took a call at 5.06am (local time) in the Jolly Beach area, within a few hundred yards of where the couple's chalet.
He's recovering from wounds and broken bones after falling nearly 60 feet to the ground in Iraq, while fast-roping from a "Jolly" helicopter.
The poem's happy Santa ("he was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf") is consistent with authorship in 1822, as claimed by Moore, and not in the time period cited by the Livingston camp, maintains Nickell.
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