Word: merriments
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...copper producers chuckled gleefully three weeks ago. Cause of their merriment was the successful manner in which they had called a bluff. Bluffers had been the representatives of Belgian Congo's Katanga Copper Co. (Union Miniére du Haut Katanga) who had refused to agree on production curtailment, had booked passage for home only to cancel it on the eve of sailing, return to the conference-table (TIME, Nov. 23). There was no glee when, a few days later, the Katangans suddenly rebooked passage, actually embarked. Copper curtailment, only solution to the industry's plight, seemed impossible...
...baiting--fascinating because the gentlemen of the cloth invariably fume so furiously and at the same time so impotently. But this same estimable sir is unfortunate in that the felicity of his pen is unmatched by the maturity of his criticism. If there is anything more offensive than the merriment of parsons it is perhaps the juvenility of minds...
...shade of Voltaire, who once marvelled that priests could meet without laughing, must be greatly pleased by Mr. Wright's letter in Wednesday's CRIMSON: now even this last miracle has passed. But why should Mr. Wright resent the merriment of the clorgy at "this or that doctrine or sentiment dear to the Christian mind?" Surely everything has its humorous aspect, and if the theological structures of nineteen centuries can crumble at a smile, then the sooner we smile the better...
...cohort of holy men who are brisk and virile at church doors, and who in their hearts find Jesus Christ all very well, but not so absorbing as Golf on week days. Comment is superfluous; all the same one is continually reminded of Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Sir, the merriment of parsons is mightily offensive." Cuthbert Wright...
...father of one sends them to an abandoned mine in Nevada, where silver is unexpectedly discovered. Most of them then get married and return to the fold of what Messrs. Hammerstein & Schwab would have you know as Good Old Capitalism. One excursion into the office of a psychoanalyst provides merriment...