Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hidden in a large leather upholstered chair; closer examinations discloses the voice as that of David C. Poskanzer '50: "I suggest we have the Cambridge police tow in about 200 cars some night and then we'll be able to fill up the parking lot the next day." He laughs wholeheartedly; other Council members laugh halfheartedly. Says Weld...
...Carol Kennicott, the stifled and discontented heroine of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, went to Chautauqua in Gopher Prairie and "was impressed by the audience: the sallow women in skirts and blouses, eager to be made to think, the men in vests and shirtsleeves, eager to be allowed to laugh, and the wriggling children, eager to sneak away...
...assigned to do the union's history, had trouble overcoming a desire to succumb to Petrillo's histrionics. Once, when a flying finger grazed him, he couldn't help smiling. Petrillo paused. "So," he murmured, effectively lowering his voice to match the phrase, "he laughs. Why do you laugh, kid?" Hillman explained that he had been impressed by the dramatic effects. "Oh," said the musicians' boss, "you should see me when I'm really worked...
...thought. Surely that. But when I remember what I said and did I wonder how I could have seen so little of myself and my life. Vag broke his tension with a smile. Well, after all--dammit, no; I WAS a student vagabond, was, he repeated, and if I laugh I will be still...
...Ryerson & Clements haven't invented a single thing, neither have they missed a single trick: they even remember to wedge the madam of a bordello into a frightfully genteel tea party. And though the authors are never witty, they have an uncanny sense of what will get a laugh; the secret being that it has always gotten one before...