Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nicholas Murray Butler: " 'The mountains are in labor and a funny little mouse is born to make us laugh.'?Horace...
Scientists still laugh at people who locate water with a witch-hazel branch and foretell a man's way of life by the stars present at his birth. But last week in Manhattan, U. S. chemists apologized for having laughed at people who predict the weather by feelings in their feet. They awarded the William H. Nichols Medal of the American Chemical Society to Dr. John Arthur Wilson, 40, consulting chemist of Milwaukee. Wis. Dr. Wilson was judged worthy of the medal (given for outstanding achievement in colloid chemistry) for his seven years' study of leather...
...Mellody Farm, which is being converted into a country club. She prepared to have the record of her husband's insolvency stricken off the county books, crying: "I guess this shows that Mr. Armour was justified! . . . And those bankers who called my stock a liability! Well, I can laugh now at them...
...worked out situations, held the interest of an audience which must have been far more familiar with the more common and more obvious elements of rough, slapstick comedy, blood-and-thunder melodrama, and mawkishly sentimental love tales. "A Month in the Country" is an evening of quiet. One cannot laugh often, but one is forced to smile frequently. One does not sit on the edge of his chair, but, on the other hand, neither does one drowse...
...funny seemed funny last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. A beggar walked on stage leading a dog with a BLIND sign around its neck and the audience guffawed when it was told that the dog was blind, not the master. Little George Meader caused a big laugh when he appeared made up as the Mad Hatter, tripped over a carpet bag, played a serenade on a red silk umbrella. Tenor Walther Kirchhoff was no funnier than usual but the audience snickered when he came out carrying a sun flower. Occasional exclamations escaped in English: "Sure!", "Sonny...