Word: merriments
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...everybody else in Takiya. They understood each other perfectly. They wanted no truck with newfangled gadgets like alarm clocks that went ji-ji-ji-ji. What they really liked was the noise of the silkworms feeding in the loft, the village bell calling to some occasion of innocent merriment...
...international institution is this comedy by John Holm and George Abbott what with companies romping through it from London to Australia. Boston is the latest of the theatrical nooks and crannies to be discovered by producer Alex Yokel and since the Monday opening at the Plymouth great sounds of merriment have been rolling out into Park Square...
Sounds of gaiety and merriment came through the door. Sergeant Jurney knocked. Mr. Robinson opened the door, hastily popped out and shut the party in behind...
...Since 1930 the average American has somewhat revised the contemptuous merriment with which he was wont formerly to regard us. ... The Americans are beginning to wonder whether we are all of us quite so stupid as we look. The French remain convinced that we are all of us far more stupid even than we appear. The Germans, in their pathetic inability to understand others, continue to believe that we are a race of brilliant and unscrupulous egoists...
...explanations, arrests the two Americans and the Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they see a company of Yugoslavian troops approaching. The chauffeur stops the car and says. I am pretending there is something wrong with the motor, for if the soldiers...