Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the scrofulous old curtain rolled up and all was forgiven in a gusty belly laugh. Edward Everett Horton, the 60-year-old grandpa of summer theater, blustered onstage and stood staring dazedly at the audience...
...everybody, saying that he was for Bricker for President. He said to me, 'Do you know why I have been arguing for Bricker? Because if we can elect Bricker we will have a revolution in short order.' " Ohio's solemn Senator Bricker joined in the laugh...
...addressing "slobs in a cold-water flat." She scans with a warmly attentive eye her 500 weekly fan letters (suggested one: "Give us lots of love and philosophy"). Mixed in with the love, philosophy, recipes, and "reviews of all the proper books," Flossy also gives them an occasional unscheduled laugh: e.g., when Bing Crosby visited her show, her eyelashes almost fell off when she learned that a baseball game could last longer than nine innings...
Radio rarely wields any lance more deadly than a squirt of toothpaste. The mere thought of radio talking back to the press gives most newsmen a belly laugh. Yet for the last two weeks CBS has done just that-it has criticized the press with such spirit and point that it has got right under the thick, ink-smudged hide of several Manhattan dailies...
...growing daily. The Boss had sent around a car for his very own use and some of the soldiers of the presidential guard now saluted as he passed. The people of Managua called him "La Muñeca Gordita" (the Fat Dolly). His belly shook and his great laugh echoed down the empty halls. No one was taking President Benjamin Lacayo-Sacasa* seriously, least of all Lacayo-Sacasa...