Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screaming: "Oh, no, that can't be right, that's the name of a fish. I guess it's Ezio Pinza, bass." The crowd also guffawed the night she told the echo of her own voice to shut up. Says Minnie: "When I hear them laugh, I know they expect me to be funny, so I'm funny...
...laugh from Venezuelan vertebrates in the neighborhood, Beebe and company put up a sign reading "LABORATORIO: MANICOMO," i.e., bughouse. Some of the natives watched with great interest as Beebe experimented with such insects as the Hercules beetles, six inches long, which outweigh some of the smallest mammals and fight with their horns like embittered rhinoceroses. Though ocelots hunted by night in the rooms of the Rancho Grande, and army ants on the march once had to be diverted from the laboratory by 20 gallons of flaming gasoline, Beebe firmly maintains that the jungle was as safe as a church. During...
...right word in a tight spot. On Kwajalein after V-J day, an audience of G.I.'s greeted him with the chant, "When do we go home?" McCloy feigned deafness, cupped an ear, cried, "What's that? I can't hear you." It drew a laugh and eased the tension. In Nicaragua, while International Bank president, he was taken to a ballgame by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. The third baseman was wild. Later, at a banquet, the local after-dinner speakers kept asking for money from the guest of honor's Bank. When McCloy rose to speak...
...cannot read very far into this big generous selection without relishing that it is a cardinal sin to take Mencken very seriously. Mencken does not take himself seriously, and he is always dismayed when his readers overdo the business. "One horse laugh," he says, "is worth ten thousand syllogisms," and he proceeds to provide many move horse-laughs than examples of neat, careful, judicious, and thorough thinking. I repeat that this is a matter of doctrine, not of accident. Speaking of great critics, he says that "they could make the thing charming, and that is always a million times more...
...staff studies Russian newspapers and magazines, checks fan mail received by the embassy and samples reader opinion through State Department staffers in the U.S.S.R. Amerika's Russian readers think Peter Arno's school of humor vulgar and unfunny. Accustomed to treating Stalin & Co. with respect, they never laugh at jokes about U.S. Presidents and Senators. They prefer articles on science, the theater and industry, glimpses of U.S. home life. No. i on Amerika's hit parade: the life of Deanna Durbin...