Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Young, Abend reports that in Japan "life is harder, pleasures are fewer, luxuries are banned, clothing is shoddy, food is rationed, amusements are curtailed." Unlike Young, he is unable to laugh at what he finds. Instead he tries to see Japan's case from the viewpoint of a patriotic Japanese. So he does not run the risk of underestimating the Japanese...
Rival fans, accustomed to Brooklyn's bragging, usually laugh it off. But this year there is no laughing off the Dodgers. Even Bill Terry, manager of the Brooklyn-hating New York Giants, admitted last week that the Dodgers are the team to beat in the National League. Bolstered by nearly $200,000 worth of new material this year's team is rated 50% better than the team that finished second to the pennant-winning Cincinnati Reds last year...
...that I know that TIME is funny I'll not have to affront my family with profanity as I read it. I'll laugh if it kills me. I'd like, however, to recommend the Book of Revelation to Reader Gibeaut as a humorous story if TIME is funny. How he must laugh over the subtle humor in the small print in an insurance contract...
...aunties are knitting. Mums is just sitting still. Dad is smoking and I am writing to you. Oh, you would laugh if you could see us all sitting by the inside wall, ready to make a dive under the table if things get too hot. If you don't mind, dear, I think I will stop for a bit as-My Lord, they have dropped something not far away, the house shook-my hand is getting tired. I am going to read your letter and see if it will give me a bit of pluck...
...circle still echo bloodlessly in Manhattan's Century Club, and their humor, which used to roll the genteel families of this continent in the aisles, still lives palely in a few faculty-censored class annals. Today it seems hard to believe that a whole generation could laugh at both Bangs and Mark Twain without changing color between...