Word: merriment
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...Dave" Kirkwood, irrepressible Laborite, then shouted: "This isn't a boy's job; it's a man's job!" After the momentary merriment had died down, he suggested a motion that Sir Philip, who was still standing, be not heard. The speaker dissented and disorder again broke out. The speaker then ordered an adjournment of an hour and the mace was removed, signifying that the session was ended...
...comrades, M. Stalin (Starleen) suffered imprisonment and banishment for his revolutionary activities. He is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness. He is a silent man, not given to speechifying; and behind his mask lies a singular determination. That is why M. Stalin is feared...
General Adalberto Palacios joined laughingly in a joke that was causing some merriment to the spectators of his approaching death. Then, he rebuked them, saying: "This is no laughing matter...
...attractive unmarried niece, a drunken nephew from Chicago and his impersonator from Princeton make the wheels spin around until one of the older ladies goes on a prolonged tear with the nephew, the impersonator is engaged to the niece, and the old family lawyer makes appropriate motions of merriment and despair at the goings-on in the dignified house on Murray Hill...
...rang merrily across innumerable little tables. Women spoke of her tolerantly (a high compliment) as they sat at Gerbeaud's tasting his famed sherbets, sucking and licking off dainty fingers the thick, pasty sweets of Hungary. Old men, taking their mud baths at the St. Gellert, quaked in merriment over the trial of Sari Fedak, quaked until reproving attendants had to plaster more hot mud upon their midriffs. Everywhere, from the promenades of Pest to the baths of Buda, every-one knew that Sari Fedak was being sued for applying the expression "That low down little Budapest...