Naturally, my next step was to read one of these jolly works, helping myself from the green row in my parents' bookcase.
The lilt and lyricism of ragtime music run through the score, as does the melancholia that is always part of Joplin's voice, even in such seemingly jolly works as "The Maple Leaf Rag".
Readily adaptable, Jolly worked steadily as a studio musician from the mid-1960s thethe mid-1980s, when the advent of synthesizers sent him back to live sets in small jazz clubs.
As time goes on, many viewers find the tale isn't a charming story of a little reindeer so much as Santa Claus being an exploitative bully, as well as some less-than-jolly work conditions at the North Pole. .
Cameron: "Being £30,000 in debt is an excellent incentive for a life of jolly hard work.
It was, my mother assured me, "all jolly hard work," and none of it more so than the abortion, medically routine but, to Lucy's surprise, deeply upsetting.
He called the renovation "jolly hard work" that involved tearing up floors and living in a temporary cottage with small children for more than a year.
One has one's image to consider". Cameron: "Think like a Tory, Clagg". Cameron: "Being £30,000 in debt is an excellent incentive for a life of jolly hard work.
But then, in another century, she could have been one of those doughty lady missionaries who set forth and single-handedly built the empire: "I sometimes feel like I'm some kind of Victorian lady who would have gone to do jolly good work in a prison and am some sort of caricature of myself".
It may be retirement - but it's jolly hard work!
