Word: merriment
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...will be finally discovered playfully torpedoing canal barges in the proposed trans-Alpine waterway, or indulging in a lively game of "pease-porridge-hot" with his former jailers. Either would be a fitting third act, and one at which the Germans could indulge in their infectious laughter to the merriment of everyone. Indeed, 'tis a pretty play, and surpasses even the time-worn spectacle of a cat chasing its tail. The Lieutenant is the only loser; for in all probability his official carfare will be taken from him to furnish the money with which to pay the "reward...
...Peace, Perfect Peace" of the "motto" conspicuous over Mrs. Gubbins' humble doorway. Spirits, real and figurative, flit in and out; the souls of the departed are invoked as the curtain rises, and they answer the call in full person, to the discomfiture of the mediums and the three-act merriment of the audience. The comic situation is quickly and simply woven, exposition coming in each case just enough ahead of action to make it intelligible. Jimmie Gubbins, reported dead by the indefatigable War Office, returns to Lunnon with his American pal, equally dead, and wanted besides in America for embezzlement...
...will write--for the Isis or the Granta, but the number of those who are prepared to draw in public is, as a rule, extremely small. The Harvard Lampoon and the Yale Record seem to be in much better case. The Lampoon, by the way, is so overflowing with merriment that it has built itself a building which actually looks funny, and I was assured that it was intended to look funny, so as to be in character. Ingenious fellows, these architects...
...from causing the revolt and disgust to grown-ups described by Mr. Nichols, the truth as known to observers is that the tired populace roars its merriment along with the dilapidated student who from a sitting posture on the floor of the subway gleefully gurgles, "I am to be laughed at--I am--I am!" The Freshman would not deprive the populace of one of its greatest amusements! And from such statements as this the happy one invariably makes it clear that the source of merriment lies not in his University but in himself...
...character-building institution, this "fair Harvard"? Obtaining synthetic gin is no longer so difficult and clever a feat that those who accomplish it need show to the outside world how enlivening an effect gin has. No longer is it a truly remarkable achievement to get enough wine for boisterous merriment. Drunkard ness among students, while pitiable, is not a condition which is altered by weeping or preaching. As long as the attitude of the student body is one of making merry over sometimes truly funny antics of the tipsy ones, and as long as strong drink is upheld because...