Word: merriment
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This minuscule exhortation caused a flutter of official concern and unofficial merriment in Washington. An uninhibited artist, who makes no secret of the complete hospitality he has enjoyed in more than one "igloo," Rockwell Kent has, when he felt like it, signed his letters to the New Masses "Yours for the Revolution." After newspapers had interpreted Artist Kent's message as an encouragement to horrid revolt in Puerto Rico, Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division solemnly demanded an explanation, let it be known that the murals were not finally approved nor paid...
...Charles Laughton). Her gentle guidance gives him a new lease on happiness, brings back some measure of prosperity. But she is excommunicated for bearing his child. Before he can marry her, she dies, leaving him to a penniless, unkempt, disreputable, lonely old age which never dulls his inner merriment or distracts his joy in paint...
Regaled by the rhythmic strains of Ken Reeves and his well known ten-piece orchestra, Leverett House will go in for a gala evening of festive merriment on Saturday, October 17, following the West Point game...
...Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate nurse "most perfect in looks, charm, poise, intelligence." Winner: Helen Clark, 22, well-dressed Tucson, Ariz, brunette. Eugenist Paul Popenoe of Pasadena's Institute of Family Relations, father of four, stirred bitter merriment among the nurses by pontificating: "To increase the number of superior children each year, educated young people should be encouraged to marry by increasing the circle of their acquaintances, by developing the social life of students (this applies to nurses in particular), and by reducing the economic pressure of marriage...
Around the central theme of mistaken identities at a gay house party much merriment develops as the characters become more and more involved. Lightening the tension are such numbers as "Play Some Music" which is, in the words of the directors, "a cavalcade of jazz summarizing all types of songs and musical instruments in pantomime with orchestral accompaniment...