Word: mirthful
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Telephone girls shaking and cackling, helpless with mirth...
...Manhattan subway train, last week, some telephone girls sat together and giggled. They would bow their heads together over a newspaper, whisper for a moment, then fling themselves back, shaking and cackling, helpless with mirth. A man seated opposite eyed this performance. His face was at once sharp and bland; he had a wing collar, a bow tie, a blond mustache. Perhaps he knew that the girls were becoming hysterical because they had discovered in him a resemblance to the man whose picture appeared on the front page of their newspaper, whose name appeared on the front page of other...
...Where's the dictionary? "Flapdragon-Snapdragon.-A sport in which raisins or grapes are snapped from burning brandy and eaten. See example I " "The wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a demon as we burnt ourselves and snatched at the fruit. This fantastical mirth was called Snap-dragon.' "STEELE, Toiler...
...walls of the Union, which have echoed to the mighty reverberations of Harvard rallies, will shake with mirth this evening, for Copey makes his annual bow. Those whom he has in years past enthralled with his declamatory ability and delighted with his originality will acclaim him, and those who know for the first time this famed denizen of the Yard will soon become his idolaters. This evening's reading is an event impatiently awaited both by the intimates of this marvel and by those who reverently regard him from a distance...
Just what kind of a sense of humor is Mr. Frank advocating? Will that which he is advertising laugh heartily at a burlesque show, or will it curl up in agonies of mirth over one of those long articles in "Pauch"? The man who laughs at the misfortunes of others does not see much humor in his own mishaps, and a man who laughs at puns, and so-called "happy conceits" unfortunately laughs neither at his own nor other people's mishaps. If it is the truly desirable sense of humor, which Mr. Frank is advocating, it is one which...