Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what had once been a rose garden. Sixteen groups dished up the food at the rate of almost 200 plates a minute. The Governor himself had shot the buffalo, from a privately owned Texas herd. (Said he: "... They had the whole county out to watch. . . . They were there to laugh when they thought I would miss my shot as the thundering herd of wild buffalo rushed by ... so they had a crack shots-man there to kill the wild beast in case I only hit him and just antagonized him. ... I think I shot the wrong buffalo . . . but I wanted...
...they had taken, and turned against the Italians, "highly impressive" new enemy fortifications near Corizza. At a mountain pass, a bomb dislodged a huge boulder, blocked a highway and trapped a convoy of 100 trucks, which the Greeks said they bombed to destruction. The Greeks still had things to laugh about: they heard that the new Italian Commander in Chief, Ugo Cavallero, had chosen to go to Albania the safe way-by land through neutral Yugoslavia, disguised as an engineer...
After the great event all that remained was for the President to review the inaugural parade. Before the White House the wind was not so keen as on Capitol Hill. The crowd stamped less, cheered more, laughed more easily. It cheered the silk-hatted, beaver-collared President (who had borrowed Joe Davies' fur-lined overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were...
...oval study the President was putting the final touches on his inaugural address: "I won't be long," said Wendell Willkie. "I know what it is to be interrupted while laboring on a speech." The President and the man he defeated shook hands, and with a laugh Mr. Roosevelt said that he wished Wendell were going to be out on the cold inaugural stand instead of himself. Said Wendell Willkie: When he got to London, Mr. Roosevelt would want to change places with him again...
...funeral came off precisely as he had requested. Summoned from an old folks' home, Parson William S. ("Doc") Waddell, an ex-circus man, stood next to Dode's favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining, The Man on the Flying Trapeze. A strolling "prompter" was there to remind those who might weep. None did. Old Dode Fisk's last show...