Word: mirth
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Stifling their mirth, the 60 august personages managed to issue forth in good order. Some even gravely contrasted the ceremony with the wedding of Lord Hailham's father...
...single exposure toppled a whole house of frauds, painstakingly erected by M. Le Senateur Klotz. He was found to have purchased jewelry, clothing and a motor car on credit, then sold them for spot cash to meet gambling losses. All last week the music halls of Paris rang with mirth and "Klotz. . . . Klotz. . . . KLOTZ...
...foreigner at the office of Judge was its new editor. Jack Shuttleworth joined the staff in 1924. Like Norman Anthony he was born in Buffalo and inhaled the mirth-inspiring atmosphere of that city during his childhood. He tried two other ways to make a living: studied engineering at the University of Cincinnati, worked in a lumber camp in Canada. But Norman Anthony was an old friend, and pointed the way to his salvation with an invitation to come to Judge...
Nihon-Jin-Kwai, the 46-year-old club of the Japanese gentlemen of London, rustled with Oriental mirth, when a member returned from Cork, with a tale...
...greatness. Like him she lives mostly abroad, and writes of the U. S. Daughter of a Rhinelander, she was brought up to winter in Manhattan, summer in Newport, travel in Europe. Her most brilliant work reflects Fifth Avenue society of the '90s (in her House of Mirth, in her Age of Innocence), but oddly enough her masterpiece concerns the passion and remorse of a New England farmer, Ethan Frame. Author Wharton is the only woman upon whom Yale has conferred the doctorate of literature...