Word: merriment
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Copey's reading makes the weary student realize, in spite of lost classes and cuts, that the holiday is really approaching. There could be no surer presage of festivity than Copey's wholly charming and unstudied fun, for everywhere he arouses a flood of friendly merriment and a feeling of deep, if unspoken love...
...dared tell until the night of the wedding when his agony became unbearable. Drunken Ambrose, examining the wound, told him that amputation at the hospital was his only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting and merriment, to the wedding-guests too busy with laughter and drinking to heed him. Terrified at thought of the hospital, he took matters into his own hands. He ground an ax to a sharp edge, placed his leg on the threshold, chopped twice, severed it at the knee...
Soon the Executive Mansion "rang with merriment." Within three minutes the President's lips were parted, his teeth showed, his mouth opened, he laughed outright. The guests were delegates of the Coolidge Non-Partisan League, actor-folk all (except Col. Waldo), come to assure the President of their support next month and, incidentally, to gain headline publicity. Colonel Waldo, the League's head, seated at Mr. Coolidge's left, sought to be serious over the pancakes and coffee, but Mr. Coolidge was in a lighter mood. He smiled and smiled at Miss Charlotte Greenwood. He laughed...
...competent supporting cast, the saturnine Edna May Oliver squeezes the maximum of merriment out of a shrewd supply of neatly satiric lines...
...another generation it was Grimaldi who "caused Judah to skip like a calf" from merriment, who made Europe rock with laughter. When, at the height of his career, he was seized with a terrible malady which developed into melancholia he sought advice from a London physician. "See Grimaldi and learn how to laugh", he was told. "Alas, I cannot, for I am Grimaldi...