Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amused, by stories of Harvard men, or further concerning Harvard men. I say we have not been amused: perhaps that is a trifle strong Whenever the story teller speaks as if his mouth were harboring a hot potato and says that in the way they talk around Boston, we laugh. That is only natural. But we also assume Harvard to have undergone adaptation to environment. A Harvard men must say "car" like a sheep with a cold in its nose, we think, simply because he likes to. Such a conception is false. Probably the Harvard man dislikes this snare-drum...
...trying to tell their friends how funny he was. "He just comes out," they said. "He sort of comes out on the stage and moves around ... he looks so funny . . . and his shoes, well they look like broken coal shovels . . . you have to see his face ... it makes you laugh. . . ." Marceline hated to be called a clown in those days. Clowns are the silly fellows in the circus who get guffaws by contorting their inane rubber faces, by painting big spots on their cheeks and putting putty on their noses. Marceline was a droll, or better still...
...that he had run away from the tailor to whom he had been apprenticed, crawled under a circus tent and fallen asleep. Then an old clown had saved him from the crouching lion against whose cage he had dozed and taught him the astonishing art of making people laugh. All the legends made Marceline a Spaniard, but he talked with a tight cockney whine in his voice...
...office, rescinded Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's orders, called Assistant Secretary Roosevelt in and explained some things to him. "After considering the matter for a few moments, Roosevelt admitted to my father he guessed he had speeded up a bit too much and they both had a good laugh over...
...found no rebuttal to the charity of Queen Victoria and her generation. Meanwhile, in New England and other parts of the country still under British domination, the flames of sedition are unchecked. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, in an address before the Schoolmasters Club of Massachusetts, speaks openly of the "laugh that is sweeping the country" as a result of the Mayor's activities; and although Professor Hart denies that he is in the pay of a foreign power, on one can expect Mayor Thompson to believe such a patent effort at deceit...