Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realistic view to the husband's fortunes. Blanche Sweet is quite satisfactory as the mild-mannered wife. Leona Powers in a somewhat younger duplicate of her mother, the hero's mother-in-law, both of them being especially moving when having partaken freely of their "cough medicine." As light merriment without a mesage, this comedy will probably take its place beside "Yes, My Darling Daughter" for a successful...
...Hygiene Department most of all, wants to take all the fun out of college. Amusing incidents, companionable joshing, and downright merriment are desirable, not only to make these four years memorable in later life, but to relax from the rigors of studying and even to make more digestible some of the dining hall meals. Dr. Bock and his associates are in full accord with keeping their undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here...
...Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema producers were reported in friendly negotiations with Author Fowler, who is holding...
This minuscule exhortation caused a flutter of official concern and unofficial merriment in Washington. An uninhibited artist, who makes no secret of the complete hospitality he has enjoyed in more than one "igloo," Rockwell Kent has, when he felt like it, signed his letters to the New Masses "Yours for the Revolution." After newspapers had interpreted Artist Kent's message as an encouragement to horrid revolt in Puerto Rico, Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division solemnly demanded an explanation, let it be known that the murals were not finally approved nor paid...
...Charles Laughton). Her gentle guidance gives him a new lease on happiness, brings back some measure of prosperity. But she is excommunicated for bearing his child. Before he can marry her, she dies, leaving him to a penniless, unkempt, disreputable, lonely old age which never dulls his inner merriment or distracts his joy in paint...