But the truth is, he flouted these rules to flaunt his jocosity.
When the alumni were well-fed and lightsome, they heard Yale's President, with Angellic jocosity, say: "One of our coaches, on the day that the Carnegie report was published .
Despite the period jocosity, Sam's spats of spite, the bad blood over bad debts, and all too many last words with forgotten men who wronged him, Mark Twain's mastery remains.