Word: merriments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind and--if one feels as a strongly as I do that Shakespeare is the backbone of the British character--to the spirit. Granted that the cues were a little behind-time, that the stage-lighting was elementary and on Wednesday night a source of innocent merriment, that some of the first characters to appear rattled off their lines too fast so that the audience decided they couldn't follow it anyway and didn't try, the lines of the main actors came out with clearness, force, and elegance, (to use Barrett Wendell's trilogy of requirements for writing...
...overseas flyer. Suddenly the flyer (John Dall) turns up, all set to marry Ruth-who is all set to marry someone else. To soften the blow, Ruth (Virginia Gilmore) agrees to act out for a little the role that Miriam has cast her in. It starts off all innocent merriment, but winds up with more romance than Ruth had bargained...
Governor Bricker also had friends around him in his chambers in Ohio's capital. Honest John kept shaking hands all around, passed out cigars. But as the night faded so did the merriment. When Dewey's statement came over the radio, Bricker sat staring at the wall, his teeth clamped hard on his pipe. Twenty-five minutes later, he too conceded defeat. When his term as governor expires Jan. 8, friends expect that John Bricker will go into private law practice...
...bright idea for semirealistic comedy that could be human and likable as well as ludicrous, Snafu bounces instead into slapdash farce. Character is crushed and credibility outraged in a hurly-burly of ringing phones, trussed-up detectives, sud den disappearances and mistaken identity. Nor is there enough merriment in such madness. Some of Snafu's gags are funny and one or two of its scenes are fun; but too much of it is rambling, rickety and pretty desperately contrived...
...Norfolk, one of the largest naval bases in the world, the war brought a daily flood of 7,000 to 40,000 bluejackets fresh from the sea, well-heeled and full of beans. The town, already crowded, was a nightmare of uproar, ranging from innocent merriment to saloon and bawdy-house brawls where tars and civilians got hurt. Vice blossomed everywhere. The Navy, as alarmed as the civilians, got busy...