Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sister when Sister Maud, Queen of Norway, arrived to sit by dying Sister Victoria's bed. Of greatly beloved though little known Princess "Toria," the London Press recorded last week that she once played before Paderewski, that she said something to Mark Twain which made the great humorist laugh and that as a little boy the present Edward of Wales spoke of her as a "deucedly funny aunt...
Said Stakhanov, "I give all my letters to Petrov. I can't read handwriting. They teach me and they teach me but I don't understand." "He has a special teacher to instruct him in the Russian language and simple arithmetic," explained Discoverer Petrov, adding with a laugh. "If he uses the 'Stakhanov Method,' he will be in algebra by the middle...
...Eager, though he has failed to tell his story in terms of the theatre, presents it engagingly. No one can deny him the plausibility of his basic situation, or the ingratiating quality of his central characters. Despite a facile ability to mock, to gain an honest laugh with the neatly arranged summations of an individualized and quixotically observing eye, he argues forthrightly, within the limitations of his immaturity, both sides of his theme...
Eagle-eyed Harvard men are always on the lookout for those little quips of incongruency that change the luminous into the ludicrous. Even when wrapped in the majesty of Wagner, the imp of the perverse breaks through and makes them laugh at the most tragic of the Leitmotive...
Suffice it to say, seen the fourth time "Top Hat" is even more amusing than the first--more amusing perhaps since one waits for each line with a feeling of warm anticipation and is each time rewarded by being made to laugh again if not more loudly at least with greater glee...