Word: mirthfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...longer amuse us; they grow pitiful. It seems unkind to laugh at the lonely old fellow as he flits about his former haunts, only to find new faces and unkind greetings on every hand. We have laughed at his follies; now, when the folly begins to lose its mirth in sadness, we had best avert our eyes...
Three freshmen eights started out and excited considerable mirth among the spectators by their perfect indifference to time or orders from the coxswains. To many, probably from their familiarity with horse races, "let her run" evidently meant "go it hard," so they jerked at the oars desperately until the coxswain, screaming "stop, stop," at the top of his voice, checked their impetuosity. The race was won by the following crew in 1 min. 21 3-4 secs.: Warren, Cabot, Hallowell, Hald, Griffin, goodhue, Homans, and Funnan; coxswain, Baldwin, '86. The officers of the race were: starter, C. P. Curtis...
...revealed the cankering cares of our life, the ghastly skeletons dangling in men's closets; and at last, of necessity, he becomes cynical and morose. Among us and yet not of us! Hanging on the outskirts of this pleasant life, catching glimpses of its pleasures and of its mirth, and yet forever barred out from it all and never tasting its joys. A man wearied of life...
...spend the day in mirth or song...
...took seats in the circle, and after a few minutes the ancient female who was to conduct the entertainment entered. She smiled sweetly on Bob, and asked him for the loan of his hat for a few minutes. Bob remembered seeing a professor of mystery, mirth, and magic a short time before produce silver dollars from the lining of a gentleman's hat, and hastened to comply with her request. But to his disgust he found that in this instance it was the circle which was expected to produce the silver...