Word: guffawing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem, as the plucky reader wends his way through the distinctly mediocre to the unquestionably superb he emerges with the feeling that after all the Benchley tradition has been preserved. The chuckles come as they were no doubt intended to, and here and there may be heard a loud guffaw. Continuing a worthy partnership, Gluyas Williams has embellished a considerable number of the pages with his delightful drawings, and as an added attraction there are no small number of opera from the hand of the variously-appreciated John Held...
...most sensational bits of prose published in 1926, one might well select the short story "Hatrack" (reviewed in TIME, April 19), and the novel Revelry (TIME, Nov. 29). "Hatrack," the tale of "Fanny Fewclothes," rebuffed churchgoer and sought-after prostitute of Farmington,* Mo., enabled Editor H. L. Mencken to guffaw at the New England Watch and Ward Society, to boost the circulation of the American Mercury, to have the "Hatrack" issue barred from the U. S. mails. Revelry, a flashy novel of the scandals of the Harding Administration, is bringing fortune if not fame to Writer Samuel Hopkins Adams...
...rose for the third act, Signor Lauri-Volpi, my stage lover, was disclosed supposedly asleep on the steps of my palace. Teddy advanced toward him across the stage. Box-holders jerked their opera glasses into position. Others opened wide their eyes. There was tittering, laughter and one great solemn guffaw. Teddy prowled on. Lauri-Volpi rose to sing. The audience roared. I, offstage, about to go on, had hard work to keep the severe demeanor of the cold Chinese princess. Signor Lauri-Volpi shooed. I called. Teddy came...
...Drowsily, the Speaker ruled: "It is, provided that they sleep sufficiently quietly." Amid the ensuing guffaw many a slumberer was rudely awakened. At last, after 18 hours of debate, with 257 members still present, a temporary adjournment was moved and carried by a show of hands as the members stretched, yawned. The economy bill continued pending...
...Kelly does not strive for superficial humour; it is here out-of-place. Mirth ripples through the lines, but it is of the sort that provokes internal laughter and the delighted eye, not the yokel's guffaw. Whenever Mr. Kelly courts the latter, he fumbles. One cannot help but feel that on the opening night the dead flop of these lines must have caused him chagrin and that he may have learned a well-pointed lesson...