Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placid Dutchmen found something to laugh at in everything. The day after all newspapers were instructed not to report that anything except cows were hit by British bombs, a wag wrote to one of the papers urging the erection of a monument to "Goebbels' Unknown Cow." After German airplanes and anti-aircraft batteries had worked over The Netherlands for two hours to bring down a runaway British barrage balloon, somebody cracked: "The poor thing finally burst from laughter...
Wauchula was the place where we played musical comedy And no one laughed. The director went out and said "What's the matter? Don't you like it? Why don't you laugh? Why don't you clap?" An old lady said "We'd like to laugh but we're afraid to interrupt the living actors It don't seem polite. We'd like to clap, but we don't know when. We don't at the pictures...
...faced Italian High Command tried again to laugh off continued Greek advances. The enemy, it was said, was merely capitalizing on a "strategic retreat" by an expeditionary force that had had the bad luck to run into dirty weather. To prove that everything was going "according to prearranged plan," General Ubaldo Soddu, who was rushed out last month to replace Commanding General Sebastiano Visconti Prasca, was upped last week from corps commander to Army commander and confirmed in his post...
...Dean's office, however, refused to sanction the plan, which Rose called "a national laugh," as too risque and not befitting a Harvard social affair. With their feature attraction annulled, the Dance Committee is attempting to engage some celebrity for the evening...
...Yankees make me laugh...