Edwin J. McGuinn described his brother Frank as a gifted bond trader who made friends with everyone and especially loved a good golf match and a cheerful cocktail hour with lots of Sinatra.
These are like the cheerful first hours of a high school reunion, old friends gathering.
This cheerful 24-hour restaurant with a small patio starts hopping at 5 a.m., when the clubgoers show up for such hearty Puerto Rican fare as mofongo relleno de pulpo (mashed green plantains stuffed with octopus) for $16.95, and chuletas fritas (fried pork chops), $8.95.
As we approach the doldrums of winter what could be more cheerful than hours of incessant Minecrafting with you and your loved ones?
My grunty teenager was chatty and cheerful for almost an hour afterwards.
A private, a hateful type who can be cheerful at that ghostly hour, takes over the basin next to him and remarks.
Ernst Lubitsch, another influential master of narrative formulas and tonal nuance, took two Vienna couples' adulterous misadventures in "The Marriage Circle" (1924), his romantic comedy, and quickened them with nimble, cheerful cynicism in "One Hour With You" (1932), set in Paris.
Her work for the actress is sporadic, but recently Ms. Brito transformed Ms. Anderson's apartment in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles in 48 hours using cheerful colors and flea-market finds on what she called a "very tight" $20,000 budget.
Every time, after we had wincingly established where Valery's college tuition would come from, or whether she needed a new therapist, after Elida had confided the latest news of Valery's boyfriend, who we both hoped would turn out to be simply "experience," we would conclude the hour with a cheerful goodbye, perhaps saying "That wasn't so bad!" or even "Good to see you!" We laughed in relief.
