Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rumbled his deep bass laugh at the point-blank query whether he might not even yet sell out to Japan. "I will resist the Japanese." said he when he had had his laugh "with all the troops nd resources at my command...
...Democrats will not make their own task more difficult by replacing the trained men in the field by ignorant political appointees. If there was ever a time when mere political work, mere contributions to the campaign fund should not unduly influence appointments, it is today. People used to laugh at Bryan's appointments of "deserving Democrats." Such appointments today would be the proper subject for tears, not laughter...
...only a year since. The President was a guest, and his entrance aroused in the dining hall a hush,--no, never a stare . . . in Lowell House. But soon there was amusement, a litter, and as the President came abreast James Russell Lowell's portrait, a hearty, Teutonic, gut-wrenching laugh exploded. The President heard, turned, and pointed calmly toward the door; Phantom stopped, turned, made gravely for the door, an obedient...
...wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might be Charles the Second to the rest of his subjects, but that to her he was Charles the Third." (She had had two Charleses before...
...Oriental Institute diggers in the Near East: "It makes you feel utterly insignificant to dig and find that those people were so concerned over things that mattered so much to them. . . . And to come across all their tweedle-de-dums and tweedle-de-dees. . . . Given time, others will laugh at our tweedle-de-dees...