Word: mirthfully
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...face of such a desecration, small wonder that the Siamese National Anthem is often used at American schoolboy initiations and novices are moved to mirth by "A Wha Ta Na Siam...
...plebiscite would be interesting as to whether the gentle exhiliration of tears or mirth affords most satisfaction to the emotional playgoers...
...difficult to select extracts from his various articles as the humor is so closely woven into the whole of each. His struggles with a typewriter--which by the way is "Ami et a mijge imean a midgt, made of alumium."--renders one helpless with mirth; while his essays on The Grasshopper, The Art of Poetry, and About Bathrooms, are inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent...
...Modernism, historical criticism, German professors, and the economic law. But occasionally even Mr. Chesterton nods, and when he does nod, his leonine head sinks very low, indeed. Such low ebbs in his humor are to be noticed, for instance, when he turns his shafts against such popular objects of mirth as prohibition and Jews...
...sees fit to state that "the Hasty Pudding hasn't caught us yet". In the "Dance of the Flying Fish", Miss Janice Liggett and Miss Elizabeth Caswell execute an exceptionally graceful dance number. At the end of the first act the Dance of the Dumb Bells is a mirth-provoker and well deserves the many encores it always receives. The Orchid show between the acts contains the most colorful and attractive of any of the costumes in the performance...