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Word: laugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina must have had a big laugh at the expense of her sister republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Machine-Made Tune | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...Love A Soldier" tries to combine a serious theme with a light, humorous treatment and leaves the moviegoer somewhere in the middle, wondering whether to laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 9/8/1944 | See Source »

Listen, TIME, there's enough cheap talk being thrown around without having you encourage more of it by printing it for a laugh. Your July 3 issue introduced the no-nonsense girl, Pfc. Eunice Shepard, who saluted the "deskbound male Marines" at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with the icy remark: "I joined the Marines to free a man to fight. Who's leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1944 | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...Walk." Through this bloody action, Hays kept on recording conversations with Marines: talk, constant nervous laughter and incoherence. "Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you're scared, run," says a Flatbush, Brooklyn, boy. "Are you scared?" asks Hays. "Well, I couldn't sleep." Says one Texas Marine, wounded by fire from undisclosed Japanese pillboxes on a knoll: "You just got to walk till you find them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Portable War | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

There's only one way to take, "Take It Big." That's to laugh it off as another hopeless conglomeration of songs, danced and gags with no rhyme or reason and very few laughs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 7/18/1944 | See Source »

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