Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unconsciously the German propaganda broadcasters provided the biggest laugh of the week. They frequently rehash British Air Ministry communiques for German consumption, and Air Ministry communiques sometimes end with the sentence: "Last night bombs were dropped at random." Last week the Deutschlandsender was heard telling its German listeners: "In the suburb of Random damage has been caused by our bombers...
They could laugh with him when he denied that his ownership of five Rush County farms made him a farmer ("I'm a purely conversational farmer. I never have done a stroke of work on a Rush County farm in my life and I hope I never have to. Louis Berkemier and Joe Kramer and the other fellows do the work. I merely do the talking"). They could nod, in sober understanding, when he said that he had spent 37 of his 48 years in their Midwest, and that now: "Bombs are raining down on England. . . . People who live...
Last week Winston gave the press a nice little color story and a laugh on some of Britain's stuffier personages. He ordered the Civil Service to stop talking what he termed "officialese." Said he: "Let us have an end to such phrases as 'consideration should be given to the possibility of carrying into effect,' such terms as 'The receipt of your communication is hereby acknowledged with thanks.'" The Manchester Guardian promptly dubbed the Prime Minister "Jack the Jargon Killer...
...Klein brought three children, a sister and 30 friends. Looking very uneasy as Mrs. Klein's cohorts squinted at him, tickled him to make him laugh (a witness was sure he would never forget Mr. Klein's laugh), demanded his signature, Mr. Pigola finally convinced the court that he was Mr. Pigola. Angry Pigolates and Kleinsters bandied insults as the case was dismissed. Mrs. Klein shook her head, sadly muttered: "He looks like him, every bit of him looks like...
...could laugh at your homey little piece on Dr. Westrick, the Fuhrer's latest appeasement-seeker in the U. S., if I was sure that no lame-brained tycoons would be taken in by its disarming simplicity...