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...straw-beds, and a monkey or two to share the couch. In latter days, Puritans, police and preachers contrive to make life at least exciting for the Merry Andrews, and, incidentally, to provide further food for fun. But not until now, so far as we can tell, has merriment and its disciples been subjected to the dissecting, knife analysis of the statistician...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEN WE WERE RATHER OLDER | 4/15/1927 | See Source »

...Nervous Wreck (Harrison Ford). Owen Davis' play, turned into slapstick, presents the usual "Christie Comedy" stuff: Ches Conklin, Mack Swain. Phyl Haver, smashed dishes, broken pates, all whirling around in clownish jamboree, affording some measure of Punch and Judy merriment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...name in print! What had he done? Dastardly impudence! Oh! . . . This was not the Wall Street Journal. He was reading the Bawl Street Journal, its gay, impish perfect imitation which the Manhattan Bond Club issues for its annual picnic. Now he could settle down to enjoy the neighborhood merriment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lycidas | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Merriment, music and maidens are copiously supplied in Sunny, The Cocoanuts, Tip-Toes, lolanthe, The Vagabond King, No, No, Nanette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays: Jun. 14, 1926 | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

...dance was given last evening in the Elks' Ball Room on Lansdowne Street by members of the university humorous publication, the Blah. Among those present were Miss Annie Sweeney of Railroad Avenue who was becoming in a neat little outfit of salmon georgette whose host for the evenings' merriment was none other than Lalapunta's pride, Anthony Hogginswifter, president of the Blah. But with no discourtesy intended the choice of old Ant as the boys call him, we feeel it only just to say that the treasurer of the university's humorous publication had the pick of the town...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/19/1926 | See Source »

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