Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West Point of Spain. The farce began on July 21 when the Red radio of Madrid announced that Commandant José Moscardó and his 1,400 soldiers and spruce Spanish cadets had surrendered to 10,000 peasants under radical General Riquelmo. This broadcast was a midriff laugh to all Spanish officers who know the stuff of which their West Pointers are made. With a rabble overrunning the town of Toledo, some 400 middle class women and children sought shelter with the cadets in the Alcázar, an ancient fortress-castle with walls six feet thick built...
...members of the Class of 1939 who have ever felt the urge to walk out of dull lecture, to suggest that more than one copy of a book assigned in a course of two hundred should be kept at the desk in Widener, to laugh at the strange names under which the most ordinary of ordinary foods sometimes masquerade on dining hall menus, to improve the method of scholarship assignments, House applications, or of changing tutors, to ask the Deans just why, or why not, to examine the interesting methods of any or of all the University's activities...
...President wrinkled his brow. Who, he asked, was Dr. Wirt? Again the great Roosevelt laugh boomed out above the newshawks' giggles...
Until recent publication of your fascinating "Dodo" articles I credited your magazine with average honest reporting. I now can pity the unfortunate individual who is not gifted with a sense of humor. I managed to get a good laugh, which might have been heartier if the situation were not so serious, in spite of the fact that there are not two accurate sentences in your entire first five paragraphs as published in TIME, Aug. 24, entitled "Dodo's Price...
That night he bedded in Omaha's Fontenelle Hotel. By the time he woke his bag of speeches had been found and had caught up with him. At breakfast with 1,000 Nebraska and Iowa Republicans, he got a laugh as he squirmed to his feet, and said: "I drew a leg at this table. I always seem to draw a leg at every table that I sit at." Back aboard the David Livingstone he made 16 rear-platform appearances while crossing Iowa and Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred...