Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again. And nobody even attempted to laugh him out of it. He continued to exercise omnipotence over his farm, had a lookout built for himself, kept his household on edge by blowing a horn when he wanted somebody to come running. His granddaughter, Jocelle, became his favorite, but she had to knuckle under like the rest. When...
Taking as his title "The Pied Pipers," and as his text the anti-Administration outpourings of Rev. Charles Coughlin and Senator Long, Hugh Johnson cried: "You can laugh at Father Coughlin-you can snort at Huey Long-but this country was never under a greater menace. ... It is somebody time for somebody to get up on his hind legs and howl !" Up on his hind legs was precisely where General Johnson got and howl he did at the radio pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower: "While I do not for a moment compare Father Coughlin with...
...York State Legislature (TIME, Jan. 14). At a committee hearing last month plenty of opponents showed up but only the National Catholic Welfare Conference went on record for the measure and then only by sending the committee a letter. Dr. Charles Francis Potter, Manhattan humanist, helped laugh the bill to death by pointing out that its provision against a person exposing his body in the presence of two or more persons of the opposite sex, similarly exposed, would make it illegal for a woman to give birth to twin boys...
Some sorrow may be expressed by devotees when philharmonics, orchestras, radio dramas, and the like are forced off the other; but carpers must remember that a greater good will be served. Who knows, the nation may laugh itself out of the depression, despite a few fatalities among the more weakly constituted who are unable to stand the strain of an eight-hour laughing jag each...
Furthermore, I have seen an authentic case of an unemployed man laughing in Union Square. He was laughing at some college boys who were demonstrating for the unemployed. Persons also hold themselves ready to make affidavits stating that they have seen Mr. O'Connor laugh...