Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Much merriment was caused by the way the racers flew! However, there is some explanation for wandering in the fact that none of the contestants (I believe) had ever been over the course before. A collision between two planes in the early afternoon was due in part, according to some pilots, to the strong wind on the sharp turn of the home pylon on the three-and-one-half mile course. The women asked to be allowed to fly the five-mile course to avoid the hazard. There was no chance to fly this course before the race- and anyone...
Object of their merriment was Mrs. Longworth's halfbrother, Theodore Roosevelt. Back from a capable administration of Porto Rico, he had been appointed Governor General of the Philippines, was now posing for sound films with brown Sergio Osmena, president pro tem. of the Philippine Senate. With him to his new post was going his daughter Grace, 20, who takes after her mother and who has been studying typing and shorthand to fit herself to be one of her father's secretaries...
...When snow flies." New England has many idioms rich and expressive, but none so beautiful as this. There is a softness, a merriment, a silence, a simple beauty about it that the rigorous, taciturn upcountrymen seldom achieve. This idiom, casually dropped across the counter of the general store when the mountains swelter in midsummer sun, brings to mind the far off ring of sleigh bells, and the white antiguity of hills...
...copper producers chuckled gleefully three weeks ago. Cause of their merriment was the successful manner in which they had called a bluff. Bluffers had been the representatives of Belgian Congo's Katanga Copper Co. (Union Miniére du Haut Katanga) who had refused to agree on production curtailment, had booked passage for home only to cancel it on the eve of sailing, return to the conference-table (TIME, Nov. 23). There was no glee when, a few days later, the Katangans suddenly rebooked passage, actually embarked. Copper curtailment, only solution to the industry's plight, seemed impossible...
...baiting--fascinating because the gentlemen of the cloth invariably fume so furiously and at the same time so impotently. But this same estimable sir is unfortunate in that the felicity of his pen is unmatched by the maturity of his criticism. If there is anything more offensive than the merriment of parsons it is perhaps the juvenility of minds...