Word: mirth
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...fought bitterly and won the right to enter every race this year except the Thompson Trophy. Having the privilege, they did nothing with it, flew in no events until the Amelia Earhart Trophy Race for the George Palmer Putnam Cup, for women exclusively, was reached. This race aroused much mirth among men pilots, caused much confusion to officials. The six starters were supposed to race 21 mi. around a 3½ mi. course. The first to start headed properly for the checkered turning pylon, then somehow got another idea and wandered off across country. Others mistook smokestacks for pylons, some found...
...even aged, deaf Immortals had no need to cup hand to ear, "Messieurs, I had pre pared a speech of more than six pages* to thank you for the honor you have done me, but I left it on my study table and my dog ate it." When the mirth of the Immortals had subsided, General Weygand spoke a few words on the spur of the moment. As academy tradition demanded, he eulogized the late Immortal whose seat he was tak ing, Marshal Joffre. Paradoxically General Weygand was wearing when he took this seat the Academic regalia of Marshal Foch...
...more engaging fettle. He and his huge, long-boned Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, not only pleased Scot MacDonald by the crystal lucidity of their plans for rescuing Danubia from near bankruptcy but provoked him at a midnight session over Scotch and cigars to roars of midriff mirth which did his morale a world of good. Facing newsfolk just before M. Tardieu dashed back to Paris, dignified Scot MacDonald beamishly confessed, "We did overflow a bit at times. I might say the Danube was in such full flood that it overflowed its banks. In fact, it would be difficult...
...through the courtesy of the French Line" a list of patronesses who sponsored a farewell party for Guinan & Gang in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Paris.? This was the first, the only Guinan party at which there were no "suckers." No guest paid a cent. Guinan & Gang furnished mirth, French Line chefs a buffet supper. Curfew was at 2 a. m., earliest ever for a Guinan party. The Belmontized farewell had the effect of toning-up Guinan & Gang, but aboard the Paris her kids did a dance ("charity concert") in which each carried two fans. To the eyes...
Such are the inducements to mirth: at a dinner party an unskillfully inebriated gentleman spys some hors d'oevres in the form of anchovies and exclaims expectantly, "Ah, oysters. My favorite fruit." On an equally high level was another very popular remark; the wife, in reply to the husband's complaint that her uncle owes him fifteen dollars remarks that the debt has probably slipped the avuncular mind. To which her spouse nearly rejoins. "If probably has. And how" so much for the play's good points...