Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sponsor of this contest was the Society for the Preservation & Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. No mere anything-for-a-laugh letterhead organization, the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. takes itself fairly seriously. Heart and founder of the organization is its Permanent Third Assistant Temporary Vice Chairman, bland, round-faced Tulsa oilman Owen Clifton ("O. C.") Cash. Long addicted to informal harmonization with friends, Barbershopper Cash applied in May 1938 for a corporate charter in Oklahoma, proclaimed: "In this age of dictators and government control of everything, about the only privilege guaranteed...
...pallid skull. His bony shoulders drooped like a weary farmer's, his little paunch sagged in the baggy white trousers that flapped inches short of his ankles. Harry Hopkins was tired, but he was happy, happy as he could be. Constantly he smiled; often his short barking laugh broke out. The long, tortuous road to a Third Term was nearly past its next-to-last milestone; the Democratic Convention was being held in his bedroom...
...useful sacrifice, such as donating kitchens full of aluminum for aircraft production. In north county industrial towns, where repeated air raids had wrecked many homes, people still tried to behave as if the nightly trip to shelters was a picnic outing. London reviews were crowded with people who could laugh uproariously at war-flavored jokes. Housewives were still in the mood and the money to shop, and flower stands were loaded with the best and gayest flowers in years. In air-raid shelters in intellectual Bloomsbury, Britons kept alive their ancient, threatened culture by chanting quaint madrigals. Britons were still...
...Excerpt: ". . . And here is this orator telling you that democracy is all through and that liberty is decadent. . . . When are you going to laugh, Americans? When is the great, hard, angry, shouting, razzberry laugh of the American people going to yell...
...When is the great, hard, angry, shouting razzberry laugh of the American people going to yell...