Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After you'd been chased by the Government for 15 years, brother, you'd be thin too," cracked Hallinan. That was good for a laugh. But as things stood in the fifth week of trial, the defense did not have much else to laugh about...
...Asbury Park, N.J., a mechanical laughing Santa in the window of Steinbach's department store caught fire from a short circuit. While the smoke billowed through the window, his ghostly mechanical belly laugh could be heard ringing in the streets...
Another dozen undergraduates are collecting $1 an hour around Greater Boston by playing Santa Claus in various department stores. Before donning their fur trimmed suits and white boards, the Santas must attend a two-day school to learn the traditional belly-shaking laugh. Applicants need not be fat, according to Holt, but a genuine liking for children is required...
...laugh: a lively satire on cowboy movies, in which the hero is always a "buddy" to his female companion, reserving true love for his horse. Other comic material, including a skit about a Harvard man's first attempt at play-writing, falls flat in a most
...Australian horse-owner named Walter Craig had a dream: the jockeys in the Melbourne Cup race were wearing black armbands, and leading the pack down the stretch was his own horse, a rank outsider named Nimblefoot. When Craig told about his dream, everybody got a good laugh; one bookmaker offered him odds of ?1,000 to a cigar. But it meant nothing to Owner Craig when Nimblefoot, his jockey wearing a black armband, won the big race. Owner Craig had died the day before...