Word: merriment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gnarled, weather-beaten desert rats packing their gear on a mule, looking for telltale yellow uranium streaks on the faces of weathered cliffs. Others are pink-cheeked amateurs with Geiger counters who clamber over the rocks, listening with ear phones for radioactive clicks, thus providing a source of innocent merriment (see cut). At Marysvale, claims have been staked on every inch of land for eight miles around Segmiller's strike, and the town citizens are now spending almost all their time in the hills...
Even this is denied Princetonians on their biggest weekend, the one covering the Harvard or Yale game. This is the time when alumni choose to return and sleep aloft in their old clubs, and the College has forbidden any parties lest the grads be disturbed by first-floor merriment...
This consists of a rally, a football game, and a night of club-supplied merriment, interspersed liquidly at pre-arranged times. The club affair usually includes a dance, but many members amuse their dates with billiards, bridge, or an educational hour at the television screen...
...attack, something for which the Club is famous. Singing out-doors is a real test of such polish: Tuesday's audience heard every word. The concert ended with four choruses from "Patience," and afterwards members of the University joined the Glee Club on the steps to sing football songs. Merriment prevailed, and the spring counterpart of the football rallies had once more got off to rollicking start...
When the newspapers picked up his innocent merriment last week and made it sound too straight-faced to suit him, President Armitage beat a hasty retreat. "I'm not peddling the institution," he insisted. "We're just a nice little school getting along nicely." Nobody had come through with a million, he added, but one friend of South Jersey (who remained anonymous) had pledged...