Word: mirth
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...reference to the Oath in classes or lectures apparently brings nothing but knowing smiles and genial mirth. What little pique the law has stirred up is principally due to its naive conception of the Bill of Rights and the illogical requirement for teachers-one of the most capable elements of our population-to swear allegiance while wags and politicians unhindered spread their senseless palaver over the air or in the press. As far as the ultimate purpose of the legislation is concerned, the Teachers' Oath Bill is doubtless a dead letter. Educators raise their right hands and then continue teaching...
Champagne bubbled full of joy and mirth...
...peculiar talents. The modesty of the character in his circumstances and of the actor in his histrionics are bound to be winning. Ant then a certain embarrassed chuckle, sometimes developing into a full-grown roar, is the answer to every complex situation and is just as effective in provoking mirth as lines of clever comment could be. While Mr. Cohan's horse sense and homely goodness are well-calculated to captivate the middle-aged security-lovers in audience and play, it is not so easy to understand their fabulous effects over pretty young things. Can it be a touch...
...Bauer) how it is that Mother and Daddy can fall out of love. All of the play has sharp theatrical impact. A vast improvement on the form shown last year in her melodrama Abide With Me, Clare Boothe's The Women was received by first audiences with grateful mirth. Clever of line and deft of pace, The Women is packed with cracks which will doubtless be batted back & forth across Manhattan dinner tables the rest of the season. Samples...
They range in time from 1860 to 1936, in place from the Straits Settlements to provincial England, in mood from musical revue mirth to suicidal despair. Any couple who wished to see the whole cycle in orchestra seats would have to spend $26.40 at box-office prices. Of the nine shows," the couple would probably prefer: Hands Across the Sea, in which a charming but light-headed Mayfair hostess invites some Colonial acquaintances to an impromptu cocktail party, then forgets who they...