Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feast on good cheer, and good liquor to quaff, ' And forgetting our labors to sit down and laugh...
...Then why should we travel to Egypt or Rome? Who forbids us to laugh without stirring from home...
...Outer Mongolian border, a Japanese lieutenant colonel and a Soviet major general stepped from cars decorated with white flags and shook hands in formal recognition of their truce. Domei reported nothing, not even the gist, of their conversation. All it said was that the Japanese officer "made a loud laugh...
Proverbially, every humorist is at heart a melancholy satirist. Not so Alan Alexander Milne. "It is assumed too readily," he protests, "that a writer who makes his readers laugh would really prefer to make them cry. . . ." Much of the charm of Milne's Autobiography comes from his honest admission that entertainment...
Though sad, the stories do not make the reader cry; though funny, they do not make him laugh; cumulatively they make him nervous. The bare, observant technique draws attention to itself and to its occasional flaws (the story Trouble in 1949 hinges on an exchange of car keys for which the author makes no provision). Possibly two prides-the Irishman's and the craftsman's-conspire to allow O'Hara no ambitious flops. But readers who are not reporters will wonder how anyone can write so well and yet so rarely try to write better...