Word: merriments
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Wholesale merriment will be enjoyed tonight on the banks of the Charles when each of the three Freshman Dormitories will hold its first meeting in its respective Common Room...
Alexander Woollcott: "Generously cast ... a source of innocent merriment...
...point of wildest merriment in the Scandals is reached when the comedian's right buttock absorbs several inches of bayonet wielded by a jealous Romeo. A moment later the balcony collapses, Juliet and all. The house goes...
...turn his back on his Tory connections. So he goes striding disconsolately down the middle of the road, trying to be tolerant, taking no sides, finding it "all very difficult." His child is stillborn. No link remains between himself and his wife, who betakes herself to rather frenzied merriment with the idlers whom he hates. When he refuses a job as Deputy Director for the South Coast, because he sees the home defense force as no more than an instrument of capitalistic tyranny, Joyce calls him a traitor and leaves him in disgust. The disgust is largely mutual. Bertram goes...
...apart slowly and reduces it to highly laughable absurdity. The predicament of John Coomber, recipient of spirit warnings of train wrecks and tips on the stock exchange is truly pathetic. His unhappy question, "Am I to become a clearing house for human mistakes?" would bring tears,--tears of merriment,--to the eyes of any audience...