Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corn beer and other spirits which we expected would last until midnight, when we hoped they would move on to another supply that we had placed several miles down the river. Hearing the sound of the drums, people flocked in from miles around. There was much dancing, and merriment which reached its height when one of the local officials fell into the river. As we had calculated, the guests left the Harvard ball about midnight. But our ruse failed, for in a few hours they returned with our decoy brew and remained with us until seven o'clock...
...spits at his enemy John Maynard Keynes as "an entertaining economist whose bright but shallow dissertations on finance and political economy, when not taken seriously, always provide a source of innocent merriment to his readers...
...strides. Jockey Pascuma, who had intended to let her gallop home last as a matter of form, allowed her to run as fast as she wanted. He was even more amazed than the crowd when she ran fast enough to win, a length and a half ahead of Miss Merriment at the finish...
...forward. Soprano Bori that evening was Adelina Patti, dressed in crinoline, a wreath around her hair. "I, Adelina Patti." she said, "have a message for you from one of my much younger colleagues. Lucrezia Bori. The Metropolitan has been saved. . . . Lucrezia Bori thanks you." Well through the night the merriment went on. Royalty became democratic, went visiting around to the boxes where champagne corks kept up a steady popping. Austria's Francis Joseph (Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst) left Empress Elizabeth (Mrs. Vincent Astor) to pay his respects to Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan's big old board...
...Then there are three most excellent characterizations: the Lord High Executioner, the Lord High Everything Else, and the Mikado. Mr. William Danforth, as the Mikado, is a player most perfectly in the Gilbertian tradition. His devastating Oriental grin stretches permanently from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles, rips up and down the baritone scale. He is so like a scoundrel, and so like a benevolent bishop at a christening, that...