Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvin Coolidge is pretty much of a child in the hands of his wife and his exterior frigidity is not reflected in his home life. If it were, she would laugh...
...fancies are his foibles and not his bread and butter. Life, especially college life, to him is a thing to be enjoyed, and not exploited. It, is possible, he has found through observation of his neighbors, to pass the time in all manner of absurdities, but he prefers to laugh and that late in May, gently...
...humor in it and so be tempted to see other plays of the same kind has given him no peace since. It is at once depressing and injurious to the ears to sit in the middle of an audience that progresses rapidly into hysteries without any desire to laugh oneself...
Surely, God would laugh at a man who talked like that. "Damn your Christian religion." That was a bad word. A man had no business in a parlor, let alone a church, if he talked like that. God might strike a great man dead, but he would never waste his lightning on a man who had no manners...
Seniors, looking warily out of the corners of their eyes and listening to the approaching footsteps of divisionals, laugh hollowly when they consider the coming nine days as either vacation or recess. Syllabi and theses will now occupy all their time instead of only part of it. They are already weary of knowledge in spite of the small amount of it they have acquired; and they have a time ahead of them when, weary or not, they must learn in bulk instead of bits. Time was when spring vacation meant that they too could make holiday after the taste...