Word: riotous
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...Manhattan's off-Broadway Royal Playhouse, Anna's little breadwinner is on the boards again, in its first New York revival since 1924. With riotous good faith and not the hint of a blush, Fashion trots out the family Tiffany, a nouveau riche clan headed by a mother given to haughty generalizations on the conduct of the "ee-light" and a father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant...
Mustered in a hurry, the journalist army trained its eyes on the riotous color of Cuba in ferment. Rivers of copy surged onto the front pages, but the meaning of Cuba's sudden agony was left to deskbound editorial writers. They fired from the hip. Batista, the deposed tyrant, was condemned. Castro, the idealistic liberator, rated approving choruses, relieved only here and there by a suspicious question. In the next phase, as the tattoo of rebel firing squads stitched a new pattern on the face of Cuba, and the landscape was no longer boldly black and white, U.S. readers...
Girl in a Hole, the musical version of Alice in Wonderland, is a ring-tailed roarer, a rollicking, ringing, rabble-rousing, riotous revel...
...wife and one son, his other seven children in New Orleans, Jacksonville and New York. As the news broke across Havana in the early dawn, citizens put on the arm bands of the rebel 26th of July movement and tumbled into the streets, firing pistols and Tommy guns in riotous...
...over the country hack writers and local newspaper wits are turning out their predictions for 1959. As every reader knows, these essays are uniformly hilarious, because there are so many riotous things one can say about things one knows nothing about. The CRIMSON, refusing to bow to this bourgeois trend, herewith publishes its serious forecast of things to come...