Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received from General Franco, giving what the Prime Minister chose to interpret as "assurances" that Loyalist rights would be respected. When Mr. Chamberlain read a Franco passage saying that "Spain is not disposed to accept any foreign intervention which might injure her dignity or sovereignty," the Opposition laughed derisively and long. But the Government had the last laugh, defeating the censure motion...
...rubbing elbows with the great. At No. 10 Downing Street that afternoon they rubbed elbows with 400 non-waxwork lords, ladies, ministers, M.P.s. Scaife told the Prime Minister that before he left home his granddaughter had asked: "Will Hitler be there too?" The Great Appeaser had a good laugh over that...
...King and Queen are good for many a laugh. When he complains of his duties, she retorts: "All right, be huffy and abdicate." Thereupon he goes into a song called I'm King Useless the Useless. When the Queen bids him bring about cooperation, "as you did in Paris," the King replies: "Oh, so that's what I did at Paris...
...heard that the Music 1 devotees have arrived at that point; he knows (off the record) that, among other things, the last movement of the Second Symphony will be played before the hour is over; and he wants to see if that certain student with the incredible laugh is still spicing the proceedings with his outbursts of merriment...
...flippantly of God without allowing her play to be in any way flippant. The play rails at houseparties, confessions, dowagers, the substitution of "spiritual" for "physical" love and the superficiality which often characterizes the Group. But at its objective attempts to smooth out human relations Miss Crothers does not laugh she merely disagrees...