Word: guffawer
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...orals are a test of the average college man's ability as a linguist, French should be as intelligible to him as Hottentot to an Eskimo. Yet we hear the voluminous applause of six hundred men at the proper dramatic pause, and the right ripple or broad guffaw of as many at the humorous interlude. It may be that a few, habituated to the Gallic tongue, lead the applause, and the rest follow to show that they also are of the appreciative and selected cultured...