Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Those who are naturally proud and envious will learn from Thackeray to despise humanity; those who are naturally gentle, to pity it; those who are naturally shallow, to laugh at it." Ruskin. Agree or disagree with this, giving reasons for your opinion...
...able to compete in the games, but who from fear that they will not win or make a respectable showing hesitate to enter. No man who has any thoughts of entering in either the sparring or the wrestling should be deterred by an idea that the college will laugh at his attempts. Plucky efforts are always appreciated. As there are very few good boxers or wrestlers in college, anyone with endurance and a knowledge of the sport ought to make a creditable showing...
...Corb in's tale of the "Wide-eyed Moose on the Thunderbolt" is excellently told. The surprise is carefully treasured up till the end, and the reader who has followed the boasting hunters' fortunes can hardly fail to laugh aloud at their final discomfiture...
...Such a feeling occurs so seldom that men smile when it is referred to: but I pity the man who has never felt this divine emotion. However, one must descend to earth to accomplish anything, and one must have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm carries respect with it. However much we laugh at Henry George and his schemes for abolishing poverty, at General Booth and his plan for helping the poor of England, this enthusiasm compels us to listen to them. But enthusiasm is not the highest test of a man; it is the ability "to walk and not be wearied," to plod...
Boston Museum.Although All the "Comforts of Home" has been running almost two months, its pleasant humor and vivaciousness still continue to please merous people, and the audiences which laugh with genial Jack Mason are as large as ever...