Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Housekeeping magazine Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President-elect, wrote of the marriage of her son: "Eleanor and Franklin often to this day laugh over their chagrin when, immediately after the service had ended, and they took their places in the receiving line, they found that their guests were more concerned about greeting the president than in congratulating them. For an awful moment, the children insist, they were left entirely alone while the crowd hovered around Mr. [Theodore] Roosevelt, shaking him by the hand...
...best laugh lines in Of Thee I Sing concerned Calvin Coolidge. One was the remark of the secretary in the White House who picks up the telephone receiver and announces: 'The Coolidges don't live here any more...
...that polluted the town's water supply. The "better element." cumulatively exasperated by Doc Bull's plain speaking and low living, rally to get his scalp. With conscious irony Author Cozzens lets the town villain, smart Henry Harris, save Dr. Bull's hair by turning the laugh on his enemies, persuading the town that the Doctor is not such a bad old fellow after...
...swindled out of a fortune trying to buy as a present for his wife the jewels which legend says Queen Isabella pawned to finance Christopher Columbus; for great occasions he sprinkled gold dust on his carriage horses. William Jennings Bryan, when he saw Tabor's daughter, said her laugh had the ring of a silver dollar. Tabor had her christened Rosemary Silver Dollar Echo Honeymoon Tabor. When the campaign for free silver failed, Tabor was ruined. President McKinley made him postmaster of Denver in 1898. A year later Tabor died, after advising his wife never...
...helped her into the car and was glad that the chauffeur touched his cap and said "Yessir!" instead of the "Sure, Bub," which had marked the departure from Harvard Square. The motor roared, a gentle laugh rang out, and he forgot the ticking, ticking, ticking meter...