merry-making

Hanukkah, writes Tatjana Lichtenstein, director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, “offered an opportunity for Jews to participate in the holiday celebrations complete with gift-giving and merry-making without giving up their distinct religious and cultural identities.”

White House merry-making would seem incomplete without some grumbling.

White House merry-making would seem incomplete without some grumbling.

In time, entrepreneurs set up bigger tents, brought in pianos for merry-making and “good, clean, cheap fun, even on Saturday nights, when the stevedores, oil drillers, and sailors wandered in from Santa Monica …”

Lula’s Garden Joy Garden: Send a sweet plant gift with this set that includes two merry-making succulents tucked into a gift box that serves as a planter.