Word: merriments
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...children giggled, knowing that even in a fairy tale no one would be so foolish as to put on a tariff to offset a subsidy to offset a price support. But their daddy did not join in their merriment, for he knew that the tale he told actually happened in John F. Kennedy's Washington last week...
Julie Harris brings an entire patois of peasant gestures to her role, including a session of silently mouthing something like the Marseillaise when the wheels of justice grind too slowly. Even when the script asks to be played by leer, her gamin charm turns it into innocent merriment, as when she mimics her active lover: "He'd just tear and rip every which way, and I hate sewing." But there are always traces of the Harris poignance, a little girl lost and a trifle afraid, waking up in beds she never made...
...course, Fair Harvard. The Harvard accompanists, Richard Wilson and Dennis Duffala, seemed to be enjoying it as much as anyone else-and why not? It was the night before a big game, good feeling was, for the moment, running high, and mellifluous musics could not but add to the merriment. The combat was still a day off, and for the evening at any rate, harmony could prevail...
...Cheers & Merriment. As the President arrived at New York's Idlewild Airport and sped into Manhattan in his bubble-topped Lincoln, New Yorkers-125,000 of them-lined the streets to cheer him and to wave placards (WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU, IKE) as if he were a fighter climbing into the ring. Even the customary show of political partisanship was gone; Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, who had never seen fit to greet the President on past visits, rode into town with...
...venerable magistrate, his robes of office wrapped about him, cannot suppress his mirth. A housewife tilts back her head and breaks into a toothy grin. A girl smiles with obvious pleasure, perhaps because of a new and unusual spit curl. A boy swings wide his arms in innocent merriment, while another brings a tiny hand to his lips as if trying to hush his own irrepressible giggles...