Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs cottage. Seldom does anything exciting come of these meetings, for reporters realize that it is not cricket to harry the President of the U. S. with too-pointed questions, and Franklin Roosevelt knows full well how to shut down on such questions with a frown or a laugh. But because the President's responses may not be quoted directly (without his special permission), the secret minutes of those meetings have a certain fascination for the public. Last week the President released a few of the stenographic records, and retaliated on the many reporters who have told...
...mean the border-town editors, don't make me laugh. They know Mexican revolutions-some of them as far back as nearly half a century. And they don't get excited, especially over a purely local affair as was the case in the Matamoros incident referred to. And that wasn't a Gold Shirt movement...
...described himself as "intentionally witty"; when his audience laughed, would wag his tail and yap, "I laugh heartily...
...little gee, Edward G. Robinson. I start to take notice; this Mr. Robinson has got the stuff, I decide. The story is a killer. In several ways it is a killer. First of all several gees get killed to help the plot along. Second, I get a few real laughs at this Mr. Robinson who almost fails in the brewery business before he tastes his own beer and discovers what is the trouble with his product's demand schedule. I give the big ha-ha to this Allen Jenkins, who is very much of a laugh and a snarler than...
...baseballers training in Florida look at the newspapers, tilt back their caps, and call it a jinx. Mr. Roosevelt is rumored to have told a press conference with a wholesome laugh that it is an affliction of undoubtedly some seriousness for his friends the American people. Geologists deny that it has any greater significance than a coincidence of geographical sequence. One minister in Vermont, it is said, confidentially revealed to his parishioners that if it isn't a sign of divine irritation over the condition of world politics, then it must be a renewed heavenly assault upon man's original...