Search Details

Word: guffaws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...statement about our society." Back to Central Technical High went the bottle (now peeling slightly). Still, the ketchup incident has happily helped to ease the city's solemn view of "art." Dozens of Torontonians visiting the gallery now ask with relish: "Where can I see the Hamburger!"-and guffaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happenings: Easy on the Onion | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

...first. It is funny, of course, to see firemen swarm through the museum library on a false alarm, hosing down the stray scholar's pipe. But they are dispossessed figures like TV actors left standing on the studio stage while the scenery is being shifted for the next guffaw-in full view of the camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Antic Vein | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...signs of a practicing paronomasian at work are easy to spot: the writer hunched over his typewriter chuckling to himself, the smile twitching the corner of his mouth as he turns the story in to be edited, the expectant grin as he waits for the researcher's guffaw when she reads his copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 16, 1966 | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

When La Pira's touch failed to exercise healing powers in Viet Nam, Fanfani gamely went ahead with his final duties at the U.N., gaveling the session to a close and returning home-just in time to find himself guffaw-deep in a whole new farce with La Pira. This time the unwitting agent of humiliation was his own Biancarosa. Aiming to rescue La Pira's and her husband's image, she had invited the chief editor of the rightist satirical weekly Il Borghese, one of La Pira's harshest critics, to meet the old family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: The Touch That Failed | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...KNACK. Director Richard Lester, who Helped! the Beatles, makes Rita Tushingham the goal of three zany British bachelors who share a town house. At the final guffaw, it's three down and goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 17, 1965 | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

Previous | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Next