Word: guffawing
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...example of how poor is "Streetcar's" direction is in the final moments, where a doctor and a matron take Blanche to an asylum. The scene lost most of its power when these two characters walked in looking like something out of a freak show and provoked a loud guffaw from the audience...
...sudden guffaw, in chorus, followed by a really entrancing squeal disillusioned him. This was not form for taking hemlock...
...financial institution, and gained readers as far away as South Africa. This week, in its 113th annual report, Girard Trust turned the tables on itself. It ran cartoons by The New Yorker's Perry Barlow kidding its own officers, particularly vice presidents, topped things off with a guffaw at the hidebound conservatism of banks in general...
Here the listening Congress realized that it was back on familiar ground. And when Truman added "at present, largely because of the ill-considered tax reduction of the 80th Congress, the Government is not receiving enough revenue to meet its necessary expenditures," a booming guffaw came from deep in the Republican ranks on Truman's left...
Plautus, done in the right spirit, can't fail to be amusing. You don't have to be a student of the Classics, you don't really need Latin at all to appreciate and guffaw at his comedy. The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy have been successful at the same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another...