Word: merriment
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...forward. Soprano Bori that evening was Adelina Patti, dressed in crinoline, a wreath around her hair. "I, Adelina Patti." she said, "have a message for you from one of my much younger colleagues. Lucrezia Bori. The Metropolitan has been saved. . . . Lucrezia Bori thanks you." Well through the night the merriment went on. Royalty became democratic, went visiting around to the boxes where champagne corks kept up a steady popping. Austria's Francis Joseph (Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst) left Empress Elizabeth (Mrs. Vincent Astor) to pay his respects to Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan's big old board...
...Then there are three most excellent characterizations: the Lord High Executioner, the Lord High Everything Else, and the Mikado. Mr. William Danforth, as the Mikado, is a player most perfectly in the Gilbertian tradition. His devastating Oriental grin stretches permanently from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles, rips up and down the baritone scale. He is so like a scoundrel, and so like a benevolent bishop at a christening, that...
...Much merriment was caused by the way the racers flew! However, there is some explanation for wandering in the fact that none of the contestants (I believe) had ever been over the course before. A collision between two planes in the early afternoon was due in part, according to some pilots, to the strong wind on the sharp turn of the home pylon on the three-and-one-half mile course. The women asked to be allowed to fly the five-mile course to avoid the hazard. There was no chance to fly this course before the race- and anyone...
Object of their merriment was Mrs. Longworth's halfbrother, Theodore Roosevelt. Back from a capable administration of Porto Rico, he had been appointed Governor General of the Philippines, was now posing for sound films with brown Sergio Osmena, president pro tem. of the Philippine Senate. With him to his new post was going his daughter Grace, 20, who takes after her mother and who has been studying typing and shorthand to fit herself to be one of her father's secretaries...
...When snow flies." New England has many idioms rich and expressive, but none so beautiful as this. There is a softness, a merriment, a silence, a simple beauty about it that the rigorous, taciturn upcountrymen seldom achieve. This idiom, casually dropped across the counter of the general store when the mountains swelter in midsummer sun, brings to mind the far off ring of sleigh bells, and the white antiguity of hills...