Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star; Why weep you muse? What tales do you tell? Do give us your news 'fore the midnight bell. His brow furrowed deep, his countenance dour, The Christmas muse gave us a look more than sour. "I'll tell you my story of Christmas '81, And spare you the merriment, feasting and pun. Our journey begins in D.C.--Washington, (Where Santa brings coal more often than fun) The New Right announced all the bureaus were messed-up, And told the poor children: "For veggies, eat ketchup;" "But how," we asked, "did that hurt our Yuletide" "Where were the forces that...
Throughout the Middle Ages, Christmas continued to be a period of riot and debauchery, sometimes lasting several weeks. The French court in 1393 arranged a marriage between two court attendants as an excuse for prolonging the merriment. As described in William S. Walsh's Curiosities of Popular Customs, at the height of the ceremonies, the king and five nobles withdrew and, covering themselves with tar and hemp, re-emerged as dancing bears, tied together with a silken rope...
...closed. Every man, woman and college student in that sickeningly quaint little hamlet has packed his sleeping bag, liter of vodka and can of green spray paint, bundled into his green down jacket and headed south to (and, oh, how I hate this) "Hahvahd" for a weekend of merriment...
...mourning was followed by the festive Independence Day, this year marking the 33rd year of Israel's existence as a state. Jerusalem's King George Street was closed to traffic as young people linked arms to dance the hora and began the celebration. Some of the merriment lasted through the night with springtime abandon...
...play begins with a suicide and ends with a duel. There is plenty of cynical merriment in between. At the center of the drama is an elegant couple, Friedrich Hofreiter (Keith Baxter) and his wife Genia (Jennifer Harmon). He is a light bulb manufacturer with a roving eye, and she practices blind decorum as high diplomacy...