Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience settled down to enjoy at least a good laugh. This little scarecrow figure who closed the score before he started to play looked as if he might furnish some fun. But by the end of Act I, they were on their feet, cheering. At 19, Arturo Toscanini had won his first ovation as a conductor...
...Mainly a literary group"--that's what the anonymous horror-lovers insist they are. "Why, just yesterday we were reading one of the rarest books ever published on "witchcraft, an opus on black magic put out in 1613," declared one of the members, emitting a weird laugh as he thumbed a book of Charles Adams' cartoons...
Crowds thronged to see a film on the Pope's anti-war activities. Many were attracted by the title: War Against War. Other crowds saw Garbo's Ninotchka, newly released in Italy; it gave them a chance to laugh, briefly, at Communism. In Naples, the minstrels were singing...
...Such letters," said Patrick when he had finished reading, "have been visiting grief and pain on this village for 20 years. I've determined to put a stop to it. If you receive such letters, my advice to you is to read them, have a laugh over them, then hand them over...
Read Them & Laugh. The letter read: "Don't you think it is about time you gave a sermon to your flock about the disgraceful scandal mongering and backbiting by members of your church, especially your warden's wife. She has not a good word for anybody who does not fall with her. She should remember that she is ... at best only a washerwoman and not too clean at that. She thinks she and her poor half-witted man own the church. . . . You poor mutt. . . . You [and your wife] are a bright couple of spiving gluttons...