Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spain Laughs is a series of casually connected scenes occurring in the camp of the Loyalists as they wait for the exchange party to show up. A court-martial condemns to death a captured Rebel and an old man who helped insurgents. A prostitute promises to reform, help the government cause. A man quarrels with his son for joining the milicianos, then volunteers himself. The sergeant greets his rank of recruits as ''Soldiers of Free Spain," shakes each by the hand, calls him ''Comrade!" When the Loyalist general is finally brought back, the treacherous Rebels manage...
...heartiest laugh in which Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has indulged in many a long day came as Defense Minister Sir Thomas Inskip, a great churchman who received his appointment in part because of the influence of churchly Mrs. Baldwin, arose to address the House of Commons. Although it contains both male & female M. P.'s the Prime Minister could not avoid bursting into a loud guffaw as Sir Thomas, a tyro at politics but a veteran speaker at Sunday-school picnics, opened an address to the House of Commons with the unheard-of salutation: "Ladies and Gentlemen...
...product of Heiress Davies' company. Though they did take into Russia 25 refrigerators containing 2,000 pints of quick-frozen cream (TIME, Dec. 28), Ambassador Davies deprecates press references to the well-publicized Davies commissary. Says he: "The exaggerations give both Mrs. Davies and me a big laugh...
...Morris, Ill.). Last week he was able to report that Judge's circulation was up to 252.750 to which he would for the time being add Midweek Pictorial's 32,750 subscribers, devoting himself solely to "the concept that in a world torn with strife, a laugh is the best palliative...
...guests left the State dining room after the dinner to the Judiciary, the President remained seated talking to Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Van Devanter. Senator Borah, catching sight of them, remarked, "That reminds me of the Roman Emperor who looked around his dinner table and began to laugh when he thought how many of those heads would be rolling on the morrow." It was not a pood simile, for it appeared last week that even if they should be proscribed, the members of the Supreme Court intended to keep their heads...