Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was the future of National Socialism? In 1933 when Naziism came to power Herr Goebbels said he did not know whether to laugh or cry with joy. Now-"the battle for survival approaches its dramatic climax...
...Army wouldn't laugh their heads off, I would like to suggest that Dali be commissioned to run up and down between the tent-rows in Africa- to scare away the scorpions and snakes, or bite the lizards and kangaroo rats...
...blood-red crosses was a challenge. For Patriotic Service Beyond the Call of Duty, it screamed. Vag's mind went Red, White and Blue. A minute later the warmth of the converted auto-showroom supported him as he heard the sugar-coated voice in the starched white uniform laugh, "Good afternoon." Come into my parlor, he thought. Now he knew his cards were all on that neat table...
...They laugh best who laugh last," Biographer Rukeyser quotes from William James. "Wait till we're dead twenty years. Look at the way they're now treating poor Willard Gibbs, who during his lifetime car hardly have been considered any great shakes at New Haven." Readers unable to place (Josiah) Willard Gibbs need not fret about it. Paradoxically, Gibbs is perhaps best known for his obscurity, a personal blackout which has become legendary. Professors, publicists, prominent Yale men for years have publicly confessed ignorance of Yale's most distinguished son. But by those in the know...
...prose parody, The Three Limperary Cripples, written in the manner of James Joyce, is less malicious, more successful. Wrote Justice Holmes (see .p. 84) to Sir Frederick Pollock: "[It] made me laugh consumedly. . . . The writer['s] ... indecency . . . must have escaped the editors." Critic Wilson's subject: book reviewers ("What a wonderful is liquorary quiddicism! What fastiddily! . . . What unreproachable stammards and crytea-ria!"). Parodist Wilson's chief victims are "Liberary clinics Carl von Doorman, Herbert S. Goren, Gorman B. Munson...