Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college days has turned to a hearty "Haw-haw!" among a certain group of Milwaukeeans. They are the boys who once were the Crimson and relished nothing so much as seeing the Blue dragged in the dust. Their laugh--well, you know it isn't a tender...
...York World wrote Novelist William McFee, British author of sea tales: "Living in a small town like Westport [onetime Connecticut art colony, now suburbanized] one sees so many people aping the landed gentry in England that there is danger of neglecting one's work in order to laugh. They are perfectly plain middle class people and as such are charming neighbors. But they have the notion that as someone else has three cars they must have three, and if other folk ride horses and pretend to understand polo they must do the same. In England they would know their...
...little man, frail, prematurely aged and crippled by arthritis, Sir Arthur was quiet, dignified, unhurried, hard to ruffle. The red tape of his job bored him; he knew how to laugh. When, newly appointed Ambassador to Spain, he presented his credentials to King Alfonso, he read his speech before the grandees of Spain, listened to the King's reply, bowed himself backwards toward the door, "stumbled over a stool, and fell flat on the carpet. Not a muscle moved on the face of King Alfonso. It was only when the great doors had closed behind him that Nicolson heard...
...love with her. The absurdities involved in these events are made more obvious by jerky and tasteless direction and not helped much by Claudette Colbert's efforts to take her part seriously. Worst shot: an epileptic having a seizure which, intended to be gruesome, will make most audiences laugh...
Author Wright, anticipating biased criticism from jealous critics, says: "They who pride themselves on being too sophisticated and worldly-wise to indulge in sentiment . . . will laugh with hard laughter . . . will say that Antonio Latour's story 13 sentimental bosh. . . . Well ... I make no claim to literary equality with these sophisticated gentry. But of this I am convinced: All normal men and women who have truly lived to have such emotional memories. . . . No, I have no illusions?I know that I am not so skilled in the art of writing as these proud, unemotional dealers in words. I am only more...