Word: mirth
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Come back to us, bring back the mirth...
...collar," and insisted upon revenge. While the doctor was making this offer someone placed a brace of water pistols near the Speaker's platform in such a position that they could be seen by the whole House. When the House did see them, it cheered and hooted with mirth. According to the French chemist, Dr. Pierre Louis Rehm, Germany has a new poison gas. It is colorless, odorless, can penetrate a gas mask, is one of the deadliest known to science. It embodies carbon monoxide. Dr. Heinrich Brauns, Minister of Labor, speaking before an audience of German Catholics...
...from Memorial's walls. To be sure, Roosevelt and a few other liberals may approve, stirred with the memory of past days, but there will be others imbued with the spirit of Jonathan Edward who will dourly regard a youth "that gets together in conventions of both sexes for mirth and jollity which they call frolics; and who spend the greater part of the night in them...
...being puerile the point of view is in its essence capable of provoking only mirth, or at most pity. Unfortunately in its application it is more unpleasantly effective. For under the system that it dictates an undergraduate may, as the result of an injudicious decision be completely absorbed in a group of vaguely congenial acquaintances and be denied the privilege of hospitality to his friends. Whether he drifts into the current of circumscribed congeniality or whether he exerts himself to lead a double life is of course a thing of his own choice. But the restrictions that exist, whether evaded...
...humble opinion, takes first place among the comedians of the show with flying honors. The way he says, "Hush! Hush!" is great. And he proves himself before the end of the performance to be no less skillful as a ventriloquist. George Jessel also manages to be a mirth-provoker; when he takes his place with "mommer" in a prominent box and translates a French comedy first into English, and then into Russian for his mother's benefit, he is at his best. Then there is George Hassell. Wherever these three act, the most ordinary piece of comedy becomes funny...