Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pages of him?no, he just didn't carburet. He has a kind of conscientious emptiness such as a Provengal would take on who is trying to attain an air of profundity. The Americans who read him between two halves of a football match must have a good laugh...
...Carolina's Josephus Daniels, oldtime Democrat, onetime Secretary of the Navy. When Senator Robinson was forced to abandon this line due to his ignorance of Mr. Daniels' career, spectators whooped with derision. Senator Caraway, chairman of the committee and as Dry a Democrat as Mr. Daniels, remarked: "Don't laugh, good people. This is Senator Robinson's show and please don't spoil...
...wishes to enjoy the deep laugh, the sparkling conversation of William Henry Welch should seek him out at Baltimore's Maryland or University Clubs, where he often sits playing chess; or in the white-tiled chain restaurant where he frequently eats; or at the university whose medical school he has made world-famed...
...before its relations with Harvard University can be severed. A brick is like nothing else in the world. It cannot be suspended, for a well-established precedent rules that each brick must be placed firmly on the top of another. It cannot be placed on probation, because one small laugh would bring down the house. From the moment when it enters the kiln as an amorphous piece of clay with possibilities, a brick is doomed to be fired. It is thus poetic justice that decrees that its career should be ended by a process known as "burning under...
...domed, shaven head, piercing dark eyes in an oval face, a walrus mustache, bull neck, a paunch, huge muscles. He is unaccountable, unpredictable. A clever man, he acts sometimes like a lunatic, sometimes like a genius, sometimes like a child. He loves to laugh, apparently enjoys being angry...