Word: merrier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon Conquering Lion Tafari, who claims to be a descendant of Biblical King Solomon, was crowned, and a seven-day feast began. It was made all the merrier by the arrival of a cablegram from London...
...heard in one theatre anywhere along Broadway. Gowned in a Turkish towel, she warbles her hopelessly ridiculous songs, wrestles with Purity League President Bliss, flops on her other end with the savoir faire and polite restraint of a duchess, with a twinkling in her two eyes merrier than all the unbridled hilarity in the audience. While Miss Lillie is not tumbling about, there are laughs for Actor Charles Winninger and laughs for Actress Helen Broderick in their marital-musical scene of reconciliation...
...disturbed these young Benchleys in their better moments will feel the loss even more keenly than Lampie's more firmly established contemporaries. And many a lonely subscriber whose diet for years has consisted of the Transcript, the Atlantic, and the Lampoon will turn in desolation to muted memories of merrier days...
Heywood Broun: "Garden of Weeds is just terrible. Leon Gordon [author] has proceeded on the theory the moron the merrier. Quite the silliest play of the season...