Word: laughe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bevy of well-tailored hostesses are the Andrews Sisters, who swing their tunes at regular intervals, a standard ingenue (Jane Frazee), who helps militarize a misfit from the Social Register (Lee Bowman). But the principal shenanigans belong to Abbott and Costello, who are rumored to have evoked an imperial laugh from Charlie Chaplin at a private Hollywood screening. With lean Mr. Abbott feeding lines to porky Mr. Costello, they sometimes sound like a breath of Joe Miller ("Those bags are too much for you. Why don't you get a red cap?" "What's the matter with...
...draft touched many more whose names were important chiefly to themselves. Culling the 800,000 who were to be conscripted by June, the 213,000 who had been called up to last week, draft boards throughout the U. S. had many a laugh, some tears, an insight into the small crises, braveries, trepidations of upset lives...
...ship shortly before its sailing time. The censor, preparing to descend to the pilot boat, looked for Reporter Frazer. He was missing. The ship was searched. Still no Frazer. The ship sailed. Safely at sea, Reporter Frazer appeared as a stowaway. He had figured that British naval authorities would laugh off his stunt as a smart newspaper scoop, play ball with him in order to cash in on the romantic publicity. Instead the Canadian Navy got sore at him, still sorer at the Boston Herald...
Though the troops that poured in were sometimes ahead of schedule, all had quarters ready when they arrived. One outfit gave General Devers a rare laugh. The 112th Field Artillery (National Guard) arrived from New Jersey with twelve pianos, 36 polo ponies, its due complement of men and officers. Only items left behind were the regiment's guns. They arrived several days late...
Although the British took their instructions with a laugh, the Germans reacted with a snarl. These instructions proved, they said, that the British were planning to use gas. To the British, this reaction was bad news. They remembered what Adolf Hitler had said in pre-apology for all-out bombings: "From now on, bomb will be answered with bomb. . . . Whoever disregards the rules of humane warfare cannot expect from us that we will not take the same step...