Word: jocularly
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Between those two nights were many tumbles, shuffles; Weber and Fields clogged in dime museums, warbled for sidewalk audiences, galooted in saloons for $2 a day and 3 beer checks, toured with variety troups. Pages of their jocular maudlinity fill the book...
...activities, pleasures, perils, fears, delights of childhood in general with certain interspersed reminiscences of her own childhood as charming as they are unsentimental and vivid. She dreaded having to ride the elephant in the Zoo-milk-pudding: she loathed, and still remembers with despair the would-be jocular visitors who greeted her with, "Shall I cut your curls off?" or " Are you jealous of your little brother...
...members are Frank Gray (42) for Oxford City and Captain Ainsworth (48) for Bury. Bath men saw service in the War. The wager is the outcome of a jocular remark made by Gray to the effect that he would outwalk any man his age from Banbury to Oxford...
...mainly with the fortunes of an amateur movie company which is trying to make the United States a Utopia through the filming of a soul-stirring, star-spangled-bannered photoplay called "The Birth of America". It is fortunate indeed that the authors have treated this subject in a semi-jocular mood, for handled seriously it would be "100 percent Americanism" carried to impossible limits. As it is, the plot pretends at no more than do the plots of countless other pieces which seek chiefly to divert through situations, humor and music. It affords the usual opportunity for the hero...
...prepare to shed them. Unfortunately there have been things in the life of the Magazine which became it more than the leaving of it, for the last number, however significant it may be as death-bed jesting, is not one we shall remember pleasantly or long. Two brief and jocular messages of farewell, the conventional allusions to the Advocate, Lampoon, and CRIMSON, the publication of the hitherto jealously guarded list of editors, and "the Harvard Magazine Prize Novel"--these are all of slighter quality than the best the Magazine has offered, in the past. Two great merits the number...