Word: merriment
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...there was more than that. While the smoke from fire-brigade activities still reeked by Waban where they were washed, the this' breed arrived at the Massachusetts State House to peddle sacred, clammy cod. Photo-poetic interpretations of all the fun and wit and merriment here not a tone for the Spring Fashion Insert intelligentsia...
Clare Scott as the Red Queen, Lee Jeffries as the White Queen, and Timothy Cogan as the Mad Hatter give their parts true Carrollian personalities, although Cogan is too often difficult to understand. All the other characters add ably to the total merriment, and when Alice asks at the end, "Wasn't it a wonderful dream?" even the jaded will be liable to agree...
...free Western zone, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer also turned 79. After a public reception at the Bonn Chancellery, Widower Adenauer went to his modest home to whoop it up mildly at a private party with his four sons and three daughters. His day was distinguished by a bit of merriment unheard at the somber rites for Wilhelm Pieck. Ordinarily a somber man himself, the Chancellor laughed appreciatively at a gift from Agricultural Minister Heinrich Lübke (whose face turned red last year when Wine Lover Adenauer could not tell France's lactophilous Premier Pierre Mendes-France how much milk...
...Funerals. In merriment-minded Tehuantepec, any pretext for a party goes; the commonest is a wedding. By custom, after the newlyweds retire, celebrators gather outside the bridal chamber, drinking and shouting broad sallies at the groom. Later, when he comes out to greet the crowd, firecrackers explode and an all-night fiesta starts. Scarcely less gay are wakes and funerals (where a favored dirge is the tune of Yes, We Have No Bananas). There are 21 scheduled community fiestas a year in the town...
...guts not to go for cheap laughs-things like pratfalls." The mission of daytime TV, as he sees it, is to ease the loneliness of women while their husbands and children are away during the day. Says he: "I'm convinced they want to hear the sounds of merriment while they work...