Word: merriments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...area of the Yard. Instead of the unlawful and justly unpopular activities formerly viewed with such righteous indignation by most of the Seniors, there will be moving pictures. Possibly even that incomparable comedy which was conspicuous by its absence at the 1924 Smoker, and which had previously stimulated such merriment at all gatherings since the Freshman year, will be revived. (Some day, a member of the Class of 1924 will be stranded in a Montana mining camp and will chance again to see this famous picture; one can imagine the salt tears springing to his eyes with the memory...
...Moliere's L'Avare (The Miser), that barbed satire on French thrift, the visiting star's abundant sense of the ludicrous makes the hoarding old wretch a spendthrift of merriment, a caricature instead of a nightmare. Similarly, in Octave Mirbeau's play about business his funnybone seems constantly elbowing out the dramatic elements. Instead of suggesting the ironhanded vulgarian of a millionaire, whose god is business, De Feraudy reminds one of Mr. Jiggs in the comic supplement series, Bringing Up Father. In an intense scene he puts his finger on a rocking wine bottle...
...suppression of vice and immorality" was passed in New Jersey providing that no "wordly business or employment, nor any interludes, plays for gain, dancing, singing, fiddling or other music for the sake of merriment" should be carried on upon the Sabbath day. In 1923, this statute still remains on the books: zealous but simple-minded ladies and gentlemen invoke it to suppress Sunday movies and theatres, while paleoxed legislators seek daily to add more awe of the vintage of 1798 to the already complete collection...
Eddie Cantor is, of course, the master of ceremonies. He is inordinately funny. The only criticism brought against him was that his virtually permanent possession of the stage made a monotony of merriment...
...most Harvard students the vagaries of the Ku Klux Klan have in the past been rather "an innocent source of merriment" than a cause for terror or agitation; only a small minority of unbalanced impressionists has been drawn within the folds of the "Invisible Empire" by the glamor and prejudice of its appeal. And there is little reason to believe that these conditions are radically altered in the present. Unless Harvard individualism--or Harvard indifference, as the critics have it,--is a thing of the past, the University will never be swept by the cheap and ignorant iraternalism of Kleagles...