Word: whimseys
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...this vindication, the victorious House of Commons Kitchen Committee, who had been defending the suit, demanded that Playwright Herbert be made to pay the costs of his whimsey...
...Jimmy and Sally," the other attraction at the Fenway is a pleasing but rather unimportant bit of the usual James Dunn whimsey-whamsey somewhat decorated by the presence of Claire Trevor...
Indulgent parents built the Lampoon building so that Harvard's problem children could have the very nicest playhouse in all Cambridge, with towers and Dutch picture blocks and hidey-holes. They filled the nursery with stuffed goosies, Limpopo crocodiles and other whimsey things. Good children should play "I-Spy-the-Ibis" all by themselves and not go annoying busy grown-ups. If there is any more naughtiness, the funny old birds will be locked up for good in Agassiz Museum with the dead mooses...
...from the enchanted castle they meet a glant and discover elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books. I did not find dear Kate Green-away as I had hoped, but I was gladdened by the sight of eighteenth-century villagers dashing round the Mulberry Bush portrayed by the happy fingers of G. Cox; and Red Riding-hood's thatched cottage; with the villainous...
...Geddes' scenery. The magic of his perspective puts on the stage of a toy theatre, a mountain-top monastery accessible only by hoisting-basket. His heights are dizzy. Though psychoanalysts snickered, the play does weave a gentle enchantment that is not entirely crushed by the method of its whimsey...