Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after Maryland's Representative William Devereux Byron died in a plane crash last March, Mrs. Byron gave Maryland party bosses a hearty laugh by announcing her candidacy "to carry on Bill's work." But Katharine Byron lined up Democratic delegates, ran away with the convention, went to work on her Republican opponent, A. Charles Stewart. Her campaign was simple and personal. She would stop people on the street and say: "I'm Katharine Byron, and I'd appreciate your vote." When the ballots were in, she had a slim 1,200-vote margin...
...Empire. He lost the game. For although the Bullfrog of the Mediterranean might devour lesser organisms (except those, like Greece, that stuck in his throat), he was firmly locked in the alligator-jaws of Nazi conquest. Were he a man to be amused by his own misfortune, he might laugh gutturally at the paradox of his position: If his ally wins the war, Italy may rule an empire of sorts, but Germany will rule Italy. If his enemy wins the war, Italy may at least rule Italy...
...Ordnance District, when Swebilius & colleagues showed their first guns last week: "If these men had come to me during normal times and said that a little old plant employing 100 men could produce .50-caliber machine guns in less than six months, we would have given them a horse laugh heard around the world...
Utilitymen angry at Government competition got a laugh last week when Government's public-powerite Harold L. Ickes quacked back that a $19,000,000 hydroelectric development by Pacific Gas & Electric was unfair competition with Government...
...being aimed to destroy the great Cathedral at the center of Paris--but the shot succeeds only in blasting a little privy in the suburbs. Charlie Chaplin, himself, suffered a similar misfortune with this picture. He planned to pierce the Nazis with barbs of wit and make people laugh at the weakness and foolishness of Herr Hitler...