Word: guffawer
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...woman's traditional baggy trousers. Worse yet, despite their exterior modernization, the girls remain shy and reserved, tend to move across campus in tittering groups, like schools of fish. Reeling after them in an agony of frustration, the boys gather outside the "ladies' common room" to giggle, guffaw, whistle and ogle...
...course academics have often held high positions of public trust. Ever since the benevolent protectorate of Woodrow Wilson, the fraternity has exerted great in fluence on public affairs. Scarcely a day goes by without the wires clattering out word of some stock market scare or Senatorial guffaw that is in direct response to a professorial edict. Only last week, a local critic noted with satisfaction that the Sunday literary supplements had depended "for years" on a stable of scholars who write weekly reviews...
...built into his weekly column. While it read like a gossip column, it was actually an advertisement paid for by ten Seattle restaurants whose names Watson dropped among the items. Possibly because the column rested on that highly dubious journalistic base, Watson at times stretched a grin into a guffaw. "Three noted ex-cons are busy about town putting together a burglar-alarm system," he wrote one day in 1956. "The guy who installs it is an expert-served in three state prisons for a total of twelve years-for burglary...
...cork-tipped baton at first seemed to wave in a rhythm unconnected with the New York Philharmonic's. But after a brief edginess in the opening work, he drove the Philharmonic through Ralph Vaughan Williams' bubbling Symphony No. 8 and made the music chortle, brag, sneer and guffaw with Falstaffian humor in a sheer triumph of spirit. At the end, the audience gave him as warm an ovation as has been heard in Carnegie this year. After 15 years Sir John Barbirolli was back on the podium he had first mounted in 1936 as a bouncy, black-tressed...
Financed by anonymous anti-Communist sources, Baer and his Tarantel have shown that there is more than one way to fight Communism. They are doing pretty well with a snicker and a guffaw...