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Word: laugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days of this and the court decided Mrs. Malcolmson had not misused any of the $20,000 Pappy had sent her to keep in trust for his three children by a previous marriage. Lucy Malcolmson broke into tears, switched to a joyous laugh. Gathering up his honey-haired new wife, ex-movie actress Frances Baker, Pappy limped glumly past Lucy, muttered, "Congratulations." Said Mrs. Boyington: "I hope you enjoyed the money." Said Lucy: "Sorry it had to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Born to Fight | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Deflation. In Teaneck, N.J., homeless Fireman Fred Fadar heard the town council would sell a six-room house if the buyer would move it, bid $1 just for the laugh, learned the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...work-lying down." Eight hours a day, five days a week, Elaine sprawls or sits on a seven-foot-square bed and addresses a dictaphone. "I just love the sound of my own voice," she says. "I pour myself into it. I give everything. I change voices. I laugh. I cry. I suffer. Dear me, I can't stop writing. You know, I think I'm just a frustrated actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Queen's Plaything | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Replied Bidault: "I did not ring the bell. It was rung by article 62 of our rules of procedure." The delegates, who had had little to laugh about, laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Old Rock Bottom | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...sometimes necessary to make people laugh to prevent them from hanging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Wonders | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

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