Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laugh...
...capacity. What difference did that make to us? Suppose Mr. Little of Standish Foundry broke three blood vessels trying to refinance the corporation. No difference. Look at the senior midshipmen. What were they doing? Sitting in their billets, passing much scuttlebutt amongst them, lounging at the student club and laughing knowingly when we mentioned cases. Why not follow their example and laugh at the whole case question as well...
...Manhattan-born Georgie was singing in a movie theater with Walter Winchell; at eleven he was part of Gus Edwards' kid troupe; as an adolescent he teamed with Eddie Cantor, his lifelong friend and butt. A big laugh-getter in his early 20s, in his late 20s he proved an even bigger tear-jerker in The Jazz Singer. His biggest success since then came this season on Broadway in Show Time...
...Tunisian town, American soldiers who could speak Italian heckled a batch of Italian prisoners. Finally, one Italian could contain himself no longer. "All right, laugh," he said, "but we're going to America. You're only going to Italy...
...Wolfe that year meant the decline of real-estate values; for her son, publication of Look Homeward, Angel. Wolfe's thinly disguised Asheville portraits set the whole town buzzing with curiosity and indignation. Mrs. Wolfe sat up reading the book until 3 a.m. "Sometimes I'd laugh," she said, "but again I'd cry. It was ridiculous in some ways, but I didn't look upon it as being anything serious." Her daughter Mabel thought otherwise. "I understand," she said, "that Tom has written up the family and the people and - has given them terrible names...