Word: mirth
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...Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth of demons. Conductor Wolle brought down his baton with the air of a man casting out a devil. The festival began...
...matters of mirth and music, the following preparations are most confidently prescribed : Rose-Marie, The Student Prince, The Mikado, Ziegfeld Follies, Louie, the 14th; Lady, Be Good...
...rung up, kept the crowded theatre reverberating with laughter. Everyone expected to laugh, and laugh spontaneously; the house was prepared to clap, and its patrons are not claques, each of the favorite actors as they first appeared. There is an infectious atmosphere about the St. James which positively breeds mirth...
...shorter and better hav; but have will be pronounsd like gave, lave, nave, rave, save, wave. We all know by, my, try, etc. Extended study has proved y the best way to write this sound, so we spel replyd, hyt (for the absurd height), myt. Some spellings move the mirth of novices in fonology, but it makes them think and perhaps inquire and they see that ys is better than ice. Your sample yc would be Ike, as c is only the old round form of k. Practically all eminent skolars in English and editors of our dictionaries ar agreed...
Best of all, perhaps, is the inevitable takeoff on some of the new Mid-Western American realists in story writing, who have been courting precisely this bath of mirth for nearly four years. The execution is performed in a short story entitled "Anna's Ham". It is complete and pulverizing, and the more so because the tale in which the hideous deed is done is a first rate piece of story telling in itself, keenly alive, and crowded with imaginative touches. The thing is studded with gems of Rabelaisian understatement, and it moves with a gallop of rustic passion...