Word: mirth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Springing, he seized a loop of it in his hairy hand and swung himself into the air. Crystals fell in a tinkling shower. Mr. Healy roared with joy. The fixture groaned, plaster crumbled-down went Mr. Healy with the chandelier atop him. Messrs. Tiernan and Dacey rocked in woozy mirth...
...Royalists who are as strong as or stronger than the Communists. Instead, he took pen and concocted for L'Action Française a leading article so full of sly, telling digs at personalities in the Government, so meaty with tidbits of Daudeterie, that Paris, figuratively speaking, exploded with forgiving mirth...
...Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after the pioneering of Virginia Woolf and others, a feeble gait, a corseted carriage...
This unfortunate woman who sits in the sideshow of Ringling Brothers "between Fat Lady and Armless Wonder" and "affects white lace hats, woolen mittens and high laced shoes" has a story which is far from mirth-provoking. Could it have been written up for you by O. Henry, it would have provoked tears rather than laughter. The facts are as follows...
Tessa fell in love at her one brief glimpse of the sleek visitor. During the two nights and a day that he was closeted with Rennie, Tessa the Seductive, the Disdainful, was even reduced to writing him poetry and in her abandon asked Toes, who rolled with mirth, what rhymed with "spaniel." That was why Kim sarcastically called him the Dark Gentleman of the Sonnets and part of the reason that Boris nearly ripped out his silky black throat; would have, too, but for the Savory Legs (Italian gardener). The Dark Gentleman flaunted his scars to the French poodle next...