Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these hopefuls, eager to seize any advantage in their Party's defeat, James A. Farley had only a horse laugh. Jovially declared the Democratic boss: "I suppose President Roosevelt will have opposition in 1936 but I don't believe it will amount to much. Who will be their candidate? They will have difficulty in finding anyone to make the sacrifice. ... I think the Republicans are through-positively through...
...majority of cases the campaigns have degenerated into personal dog-fights. But even the kick-'im-in-the-shins "You're a liar--you're another!" blustering that have resounded in New York are harmless compared to the insidious below-the belt fighting elsewhere. The mass of voters either laugh at an open fight, or they vote against a "knocker"; but they have never read "Brutus is an honorable man" and they do not recognize subtle defamation. The winning of campaigns by such means--and examples abound--is a knock-down blow to a faith in democracy...
Thus it seems to me that those who take seriously the Nazi chatter on these subjects must make even the Nazis laugh. Professor Wiener does his intelligence no credit if he thinks those who run Germany are fools. Let him call them flends if he will, but not fools. They know exactly what they want (Regard--Oh, Democracy!) and the chances are, that in spite of the nervous French and the nervous Jews, they will get it. In History, is or is it not that that counts...
Everybody except Freshmen know Harold Lloyd by heart. Some members of the Class of 1938 might even remember one of his productions. It is sufficient to say that he is unchanged, and those who enjoy a bolly-laugh at slapstick and rather primitive humor will not be disappointed...
...adjacent auditorium, the crowd listens to another speaker.--"don't want to speak ill of the dead, so I won't speak ill of Goodwin." They all got the point immediately. They laugh...