Word: merriment
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...Except that Bartlett's actually fails to include such phrases as The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la; A source of innocent merriment; A wandering minstrel I, and many others virtually as famous...
...Oyly Carte has not achieved "the object all sublime" in this movie. But for devoted Savoyards, the show at the Kenmore provides "a source of innocent merriment, of innocent merriment...
...mention that the reporter was O'Hara. Hearst-ling Inez Robb, doing her usual breezy job, apologized to her readers for one omission: she had felt she must leave the courtroom when the autopsy testimony got too grisly. Reporter Robb was also the source of some innocent merriment in Manchester; townspeople tittered at the big-city blue tint of her grey hair. But Manchesterites were not amused when Correspondent Nicolas Chatelain of Paris' Le Figaro patronizingly observed that Manchester's French Canadians speak a quaint "17th Century" French. One of the local pastors denounced Chatelain as just...
...gnarled, weather-beaten desert rats packing their gear on a mule, looking for telltale yellow uranium streaks on the faces of weathered cliffs. Others are pink-cheeked amateurs with Geiger counters who clamber over the rocks, listening with ear phones for radioactive clicks, thus providing a source of innocent merriment (see cut). At Marysvale, claims have been staked on every inch of land for eight miles around Segmiller's strike, and the town citizens are now spending almost all their time in the hills...
Even this is denied Princetonians on their biggest weekend, the one covering the Harvard or Yale game. This is the time when alumni choose to return and sleep aloft in their old clubs, and the College has forbidden any parties lest the grads be disturbed by first-floor merriment...