Word: mirthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stocky little tycoon who smiles and smiles (from habit rather than chronic mirth) is great Baron Melchett, No. 1 British industrialist, board chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Last week in Manhattan he smiled at the Bond Club, addressed to its spruce and serious members a sardonic prophecy. Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition...
STREET SCENE-Proletariat passion and mirth...
...hard part is to be spontaneous about the same jokes every night. These giggles of suppressed mirth at the end of twenty weeks of suppression get to be sort of hard. But why be lachrymose, to make an ostentatious display of my brief college career. But speaking of stage conversations some one asked me the other day just what it was that chorus girls talked about while standing about on the stage between dances. He seemed to think it would be more or less a discussion of something far removed from stage life while as a matter of fact...
...addition to the usual chess problem. With--a hearty laugh the business man turns to an adjoining column to find that for the first time in ten years Congress is to open discussion on the Prohibition question. Perhaps he becomes aware of that unpleasant feeling which follows untimely mirth--perhaps not. But the utter ridiculousness of the similarity is not to be evaded...