Word: mirth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once more the river blossomed with gay little boats and with sleek grey or white yachts from whose decks, between races, came sounds of mirth mingled with the tinkling of ice; once more gentlemen slept three in a bed at the Griswold Hotel; once more ladies waved little blue or crimson flags and asked, "Who won?" They should have known that if this race is to remain a classic, the classic result must not be changed. Yale...
...sprightly George and Marion Kerby into the next world. Passing the tree where they came to grief, Topper is joined by spiritistic versions of the Kerbys, and during the adventures that follow he comes to love them as childish prankers. The belated release of Topper is rather pathetic, but mirth is the tale's mother element. Topper tight; Topper in the courtroom with the ghostly Kerbys pulling the judge's leg; the smoky lady in stepins whom none but Topper can understand; Topper sitting platonically in an ectoplasmic lap ?out of such stuff is compounded a book...
...this is interesting. The rule which inspires it is certainly harmless and, if mirth be universally salutary, is perhaps good. On the other hand, it can hardly be called rational. And if it were placed officially in the limbo to which it has to all intents, been relegated, instructors could follow their professional freedom without the necessity of professorial intrigue...
...RATHER ENJOYED IT?P. G. Wodehouse?Doran ($2). This is one of those books which, if read in a club car or dentist's waiting room, will cause people to glare at you, pretend to stare out the window and finally move away. Readers realizing that private mirth is a public nuisance will, unless malicious, arrange to meet Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in some secluded spot. He is a rather large, angular young man with a napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which...
...Kelly does not strive for superficial humour; it is here out-of-place. Mirth ripples through the lines, but it is of the sort that provokes internal laughter and the delighted eye, not the yokel's guffaw. Whenever Mr. Kelly courts the latter, he fumbles. One cannot help but feel that on the opening night the dead flop of these lines must have caused him chagrin and that he may have learned a well-pointed lesson...