Word: mirthfulness
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...this is interesting. The rule which inspires it is certainly harmless and, if mirth be universally salutary, is perhaps good. On the other hand, it can hardly be called rational. And if it were placed officially in the limbo to which it has to all intents, been relegated, instructors could follow their professional freedom without the necessity of professorial intrigue...
...RATHER ENJOYED IT?P. G. Wodehouse?Doran ($2). This is one of those books which, if read in a club car or dentist's waiting room, will cause people to glare at you, pretend to stare out the window and finally move away. Readers realizing that private mirth is a public nuisance will, unless malicious, arrange to meet Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in some secluded spot. He is a rather large, angular young man with a napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which...
...Kelly does not strive for superficial humour; it is here out-of-place. Mirth ripples through the lines, but it is of the sort that provokes internal laughter and the delighted eye, not the yokel's guffaw. Whenever Mr. Kelly courts the latter, he fumbles. One cannot help but feel that on the opening night the dead flop of these lines must have caused him chagrin and that he may have learned a well-pointed lesson...
...their society. Gravely they placed in his hands a handsome shagreen* and silver case, containing the diploma which confers upon him the right to minister to his father's subjects throughout the entire course of their lives. Gravely the apothecaries departed and were succeeded by the gods of awful mirth...
High in Montmartre, one Frisco le Nègre presides as the epitome of sinewy darkness over white folks' revels. His wide infectious smile brims with the elements of primeval mirth. Last week he welcomed many a world-famous guest to Mitchell's, a noted Parisian variant of the blackamoor nightclubs of Harlem, New York City...