Gambling has not even the convivial results of alcohol.
It is a convivial activity more akin to teaching dance or drama than a dry as dust classroom subject.
They can make no such charge for conducting their business in a convivial atmosphere.
There is no provision for them to do that in convivial surroundings.
Some, it is true, are devoted to convivial purposes, and perhaps that may be often quite a legitimate thing to do.
Music, or at least, convivial song, was the main recreation at meetings of the numerous tavern societies in die town, several of which already existed in 1760.
Whatever is convivial, move it here.
Some of the more established tenants viewed gossip as a feature of social decline, sometimes singling out particular people as snooping busy-bodies, whose presence undermined the generally convivial atmosphere.
