Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swaggering unprincipled clerk named Sergei starts the trouble. He squeezes the cook playfully, rolls her in a barrel while the peasants laugh uproariously.* Just for fun, Katerina accepts Sergei's challenge to wrestle with him in the courtyard. Because she has been lonely and restrained, she lets him into her bed after a minor struggle. There the father-in-law catches them, flogs the clerk until his bare back bleeds. For that Katerina feeds the old man mushrooms, seasoned with rat poison. His vitals burn and gnaw. A priest is summoned. "I die like a rat," gurgles the father...
More broadly the youngest (45) French Premier sums up his vision of the future thus: "What will the new social order in France be like? I laugh at those who think that Capitalism is dead. . . . The struggle for success has always been bitter, and only a few can win. . . . The younger generation seems to me to have a new vitality. This is needed if we are to get business going again. France is renewing herself...
There is probably not a person in New York who could sit through the play without at least one good belly-laugh and half a dozen chuckles, and most of the audience comes pretty close to rolling in the aisles. If you have an evening in New York and want to get your money's worth of entertainment, you can be sure of it at the 48th Street Theatre
...hasten to endorse the idea of "Friends of TIME"-Society for the Combating of Bigots, it might be called (TIME, Jan. 14). I herewith pledge my contribution to offset the Army man's popgun shot fired down Puerto Rico way; it gave me a hearty laugh...
...this will mean permanent prosperity. It will empty the poorhouses and the jails. It will cure 90% of our problems. You can't laugh it down. This won't debunk. It's the simplest thing in the world. These professional economists can't see it. It comes from the brain of a little country doctor. God always picks a man like that...