Word: laughe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While on the subject of the faculty, (and it ought to be worth four Distinc's at least) it was good for a laugh the other day to see Professor "Peanut Wagon" Hanson come in, set his books down, look impatiently at the stragglers, then realize he was in the wrong classroom to rush out red-faced...
...people call her "La Maciste," after an Italian clown in the old silent movies. But they dare not laugh at her in public. Privately, they gibe at her mannish jackets, her flowing skirts, her famed temper. But her own physique, her ready pistol, and her influence with the Dictator guard La Maciste when she strides like a walking statue through the streets of Guatemala City...
...Time to Laugh. Gayn's mother was a thwarted opera singer from Siberia. His playmates were Russians, Chinese and Germans. When Gayn was 14 he went to a Soviet school in Vladivostok, where his training included work in machine shops and factories. "We are too busy to laugh," shouted a Communist orator. In 1929, after a short stay in a Shanghai academy, Gayn's parents sent...
...purpose of the organization is to present premieres of worthy dramas, especially those by undergraduates, or revivals of great works. The latest undergraduate show was "Too Late to Laugh" by Vinton Freedley, Jr. '14, which was produced...
...forever fails, to stop the brick. The predicament of the Kat, Ignatz and the Pupp is perhaps the century's wisest, certainly its gayest, fable of the Problem of Evil. Nevertheless, Herriman's comic strip remained simple, popular art whose purpose was to make simple people laugh...