Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no great surprise, no intense shock, for the air is so new a field that man is still a little surprised at being able to fly. But when a coastal steamer meets doom on its accustomed journey, or when a flood destroys a valley, the old elements laugh at the real impotence of humanity. The claims of chemical rain-makers and cloud-destroyers have so far met with failure as complete as that of learns. Snow, rain, wind can still toy with man, much as in those days; the superman who rules the elements is still only...
Political epithets, accustomed as they are to being taken with a counter-epithet or with a laugh, seldom provoke a libel suit. When a senator or a mayor calls a man a stool pigeon, a snooper, a boodler, a buffoon, a scoundrel, a scalawag or a person weaned on a pickle, he apparently considers himself safe from libel proceedings. And, in legislative chambers, he is. But in a mayor's chair...
...miserable indeed are the attempts at humor. Most musical plays try hard to coax a laugh, usually failing utterly. Here the coaxing is incessant and the results beggar description. If you get a good laugh you get your money back...
...happiest little woman In all this little town; And my merry laugh and singing Takes the place of sigh and frown...
...great Kenzan, who dashed a playful brush over so many tea bowls and cake dishes and who lacquered and painted and carved in wood. It has proved distressingly easy for the generations since his time to immitate his eccentricities but none seems quite to have caught his laugh. It is too much like translating Heine. This exhibition contains no less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some of them are almost certainly by him. Koyetsu, less known abroad than his pupil Korin, is represented if only...