Word: mirth
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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...
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...