Word: guffawing
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...Senator Heflin had many last words, including raucous sideswipes at Candidate Alfred Emanuel Smith. One phrase made the galleries guffaw. "Mr. President," Heflin said, "I have no religious prejudice. I am simply a wholehearted American...
...last week caught the hiccups. For three nights its pen, in Birmingham, Ala., echoed with a silly incessant guffaw. Owner of the pig, one Joseph St. George, deprived of sleep, surveyed his eccentric porker. He ordered a large plate of "swill" to be brought. This the pig ate greedily and continued hiccupping. Mr. St. George whacked the pig's back with a trowel; still the idiotic grunts continued. Then Mr. St. George soaked the pig with ice cold water; no cure. At last Joseph St. George came with a little perfumed sponge which he pushed against...
Among the Germans was Herr Doktor Gustav Stresemann, Reich Foreign Minister and leader of the Teuton delegation, his lynx-like eyes darting about, occasionally flashing with amusement. But never did his thin lips part in a smile, nor his heavy jowls open to emit a guffaw. Noted was his extreme pallor. With him was Count Johann Heinrich von Bern-storff, onetime German Ambassador to Washington, sphinxlike, debonair, aging...
...dialectic of laughter, from boor to baronet, is thus: shout, guffaw, laugh, chuckle, smile. Inferior forms of laughter would seem to be the titter, the giggle, the cackle, the roar, the snigger...
...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...