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Word: laugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking Latin could make last night's Classical Club dinner more than an interesting tour-de-force. The reading of Latin poets is a worth-while and illuminating experience; conversational toying with gerundives is hardly interpretive of the Roman spirit. Leverett Latin would have given any Roman a good laugh. Latin is a dead Language; as such it lends itself to appreciative study but not to creative composition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENSA, MENSAE | 11/12/1931 | See Source »

Leon Janney, as Penrod, is a talented and charming boy, with an infectious laugh and a most engaging swagger. But his face is far too pretty for Penrod, who would have been more accurately represented by Junior Cohgian, the youngster who plays Sam. If ever Hollywood does a story of prep-school life, which is unlikely, Leon Janney would make a perfect lower-form boy attending Sunday evening Chapel in an Eton collar...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

...Those soldiers," said Miss Osborne with a laugh. "Believe me by the time I was twelve I knew too much for a grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: What Sculptors Want | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...Laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fingers | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Macon, Ga., James Henry Watts laughed, dislocated his jaw. He went to a hospital, had the jaw set, departed, laughed again, returned, had the jaw set again, departed, laughed a third time, went back and had his jaw taped up so he could not laugh. James Henry Watts now titters through his teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fingers | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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