Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia newsmen who cover the City Hall get many a laugh out of their work. Most innocent source of merriment is Councilman Charlie Pommer, known in the City Hall pressroom as "The Human Domino...
...began. Explaining that they must be sure the Bremen carried no war contraband, no arms with which she might prey on other ships on the way home, the inspectors poked and peered everywhere through the ship and took their sweet time, two days. One of them, amid much merriment, even managed to fall overboard (see cut p. 14). They even made the Bremen's crew go through lifeboat drill. Furious, an official of the line said: "Now they are searching an empty swimming pool." The delay cost Germany some $6,000. Worse, it gave the British cruiser Berwick ample...
...that point; he knows (off the record) that, among other things, the last movement of the Second Symphony will be played before the hour is over; and he wants to see if that certain student with the incredible laugh is still spicing the proceedings with his outbursts of merriment...
After the dance merriment in Lowell House on Monday evening will come the Class day activities on Wednesday, beginning at 11:30 o'clock in the Kirkland House triangle, Here will be given the Class Orations, Poem...
...traditional merriment of Harvard Class Day week will start with the gala spread and dance in the double court-yard of Lowell House at 10 o'clock on Monday evening, June...