Word: mirth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forwarded a contract to George H. ("Babe") Ruth, basking temporarily in the Klieg-light of Hollywood. Mr. Ruth examined the document, laughed. These club owners will have their jokes. They had sent him a contract which offered a mere $52,000 in return for his 192.7 efforts. Controlling his mirth, Mr. Ruth expressed a desire to be absolutely fair in the matter. He would compromise for a small fraction of his actual worth- whatever that might be. In short he would accept a contract calling for $100,000 a year...
...humor is limited and minds even of jesters will grow tired. But may we offer a suggestion? It is not wise to make a clock tick backwards. The past cannot be idly conjured up. It would be better, perhaps, to reiterate time-worn subjects, and to wring out mirth from the present at the expense of other colleges, cities, and societies, than to revert to the past, and bring to light only stuffed caricatures...
Tangy whitecaps snickered and huge rollers boomed sea-mirth, last week, as H. M. S. Renown hove to off Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and the Duke and Duchess of York prepared to land amid a heavy sea in the frail royal motor barge...
Till he showed us for our good- Deaf to mirth and blind to scorn- How we might have best withstood Burdens that he has not borne...
...have our men go to England to the universities. It makes them dissatisfied with us. They say we are ignorant, but when we become educated they say we are too far advanced and become jealous." To the question, "Do you like the English?" Her Highness replied with complacent mirth: "Englishmen always look as if they needed feeding. Here we like nice fat men." Sir Ghanshyamsinhji, Maharajah...