Word: merriment
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...Rogers has been gives his ideal role as last --it seems abased that it was never find before. The firm executives, to be sure, always best him as an old fashioned Yankee type out the emphasis was always placed on the wrong Yankee characteristics. Either he was provoking general merriment by some faus pas of the "Howdly Duchess" varsity or he was being evicted or swindled by some a lick newcomer. In "David Herum," however, he is not only a Yankee type but a smart Yankee. The scene is not Paris or Hollywood; it is where one naturally expects...
...thus a Chemistry tutor would question a concentrator in History, a Mathematics tutor, a tutee in Govt, etc. After their own examinations the tutees could be allowed to question a Fine Arts tutor in Bio-Chemistry, etc. Thus there would be a delightful complicity which would provide lots of merriment...
...corn beer and other spirits which we expected would last until midnight, when we hoped they would move on to another supply that we had placed several miles down the river. Hearing the sound of the drums, people flocked in from miles around. There was much dancing, and merriment which reached its height when one of the local officials fell into the river. As we had calculated, the guests left the Harvard ball about midnight. But our ruse failed, for in a few hours they returned with our decoy brew and remained with us until seven o'clock...
...spits at his enemy John Maynard Keynes as "an entertaining economist whose bright but shallow dissertations on finance and political economy, when not taken seriously, always provide a source of innocent merriment to his readers...
...strides. Jockey Pascuma, who had intended to let her gallop home last as a matter of form, allowed her to run as fast as she wanted. He was even more amazed than the crowd when she ran fast enough to win, a length and a half ahead of Miss Merriment at the finish...