Word: merriest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mounts his throne-a decrepit easy chair on a mule-drawn wagon. Up darktown's Rampart Street whoop King and courtiers, laughing at the whites on the royal way. At 7 p. m. their parade ends, and the drinking and the loving begin. It is carnival for the merriest of people. It is also dark satire on the pretentious, elite Mardi Gras courts of the white folks' Rex, Momus, Comus, Proteus, the Druids...
...please! Why grub for gold when "You Can't Take It With You?" Thus speaks Grandpa Vanderhof, who, when entering his office one day, hearkens to his own words, turns on his heel, and never goes to work again; who is the patriarch of the maddest and merriest household establishment ever on exhibition. By the adequate light of a firmament of stars, Frank Capra has depicted well the story of the Vanderhofs, with their fire-works, ballet-dancing, xylophones, and discus-throwers. His touch has provided healthy humor in abundance and a dash or so of moving drama. The picture...
While Europe's merriest royal couple- Crown Princess Juliana, almost nine months pregnant, and Prince Bernhard, now in his sixth week of recovery from a, motor smashup-spent the holidays in adjoining rooms of an Amsterdam hospital, their friends received their royal Christmas card. It bore a photograph of Benno's wrecked Ford, beneath it a verse in their own English...
Harvard. "He himself seldom drank even beer," says Mrs. Older, "but his friends were Harvard's merriest roisterers. More and more were their misdemeanors held to be a violation of discipline and order. . . . Before he took his degree he left Cambridge never to return...
This from one whose capital is increasing $2,000 per day or thereabouts struck the merriest possible note in Scotland. Cheerfully the King, in sleek long coat and bowler, set out to repeat in Glasgow slums the sort of famed house-to-house tour he made as Edward of Wales through the bleak, starveling Welsh collieries and "Depressed Areas...