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Witticisms, gibes, jokes and epigrams like these, some of which still have currency in the theatre with only superficial changes, are packed by the score into The Country Wife, first produced in London in 1673, when Charles II, the merry monarch of the Restoration, wanted everybody to have a good...
¶After dining with Mrs. Simpson and making merry with friends who drifted in afterward, His Majesty left after midnight by sleeping car to review at Portland the Home Fleet, just back from "threatening" Italy in the Mediterranean (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935). The Royal Yacht Victoria & Albert on which King...
At the time of this writing there's a great array of fireworks and much merry-making over most of England. It's Guy Fawkes night. Fawkes you remember was the hapless man who in 1605 tried to blow up Parliament. I'm not sure whether this celebration is an...
14th. Awake betimes, but lay long abed listening to the little folks doing their merry square-dance inside my head. Lord, how mischievous they are to jump so hard and race their circles round and round. Pictures of last night's revelry coming between the little dancers. Tis passing strange...
The merry widow of Weymouth isn't the only one who has gone to pieces over the strewing of anatomical members hither and yon in Boston harbor. Probably since the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, or at least since Jessic Costello cleaned her boiler, Boston has never had such a...