Word: mirth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly a small sketch hidden away on page 289, untitled, unadorned. There is no use in going over the whole number in these columns, they suit better their natural habitat. Let the Jester mourn. When he does, we can smile; it is only when he is rioting in mirth that we cannot appreciate him. He has done a good job--let him mourn
...full of such students, when they see before them a proctor glancing through the first few bluebooks which have been handed in, and chortling in his glee? Around him gather his friends, and together they form a merry party over those first few tragic failures, not thinking what their mirth may mean to their wards who have not yet given up the fight. If to the proctor the downfall of a student who is not clear on the place of residence of the Hittites may be as inconsequential, and far funnier, than the death of the Jabberwock, to the motionless...
...form of recreation might be their choice. If scholastic dignity should forbid the playing of cards, chess, checkers, or any of the lighter diversions of mankind, and there is nothing for it but to read the bluebooks as they are handed in, let them read in silence; let open mirth be restrained until the last victim has been led from the scene, and then let the rafters resound with Jovian laughter over the mistakes of mortals...
...Pictures. In the crowded gloom of Dance in a Madhouse, lunatics jostle. An old man with a bald head and a long, sharp nose grins and capers, holding a woman in white whose face is twisted into a grotesque horror of mirth. Around them the mad people sprawl, each one tasting some sly, thoughtful obscenity, and a man whose hand is a pointed nightmare gapes at a tiny woman...
...Pré Catalan,* smart restaurant in the leafy Bois de Boulogne, there motored out last week from Paris the Cabinet of Premier Raymond Poincare. An air of mystery and suppressed mirth prevailed, for M. Poincare was not supposed to know that this luncheon was to commemorate the first anniversary of his present Cabinet and to crown the great labors by which he has restored the shaken finances of France. All the Ministers were there, even Mi Briand, just now recovered from his attack of "strawberry rash" (TIME, June 27), but no one of the assembled statesmen...