Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall audience heard all these works played by a 40-piece orchestra headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe's own jazzy, tuneful, descriptive music, as well as the numerous other works he played, good listening, often good for a laugh. The Symphony in Steel employed a siren and pneumatic drills. The Tchaikovskian Sob Sister from Tabloid Suite was neatly assembled, bu! Hollywood proved most successful, with the banging and scraping of carpenters and electricians, the ennui of "stand-ins." the barking of a director, a "Precision Routine" in which...
...score of persons, flew back & forth between Nanking and Sian, each carrying one or two Chinese officers of low rank supposedly entrusted with the usual bribe money indispensable to settling a Chinese crisis. "Was I endangered in Sian?" said Counselor Peck, who knows his China, with a hearty laugh. "Of course...
...houseparties, "seasons" in London, the routine existence of their English set. After two years of marriage, Elinor found that Romance had flown. When she indignantly reported to Clayton that one of his friends had kissed her, he simply smiled. Elinor says she had plenty of opportunity to make him laugh on the wrong side of his face. Divorce in those days was social suicide, but discreet affairs were the rule. Elinor, though tempted, does not admit that she ever fell. Instead she took to writing, turned many a might-have-been into the wishfulfillment of words. "I drew...
...America and is interested in the success of the strike. Union lawyers appear before this judge and he grants them a petition directing General Motors officials to bargain collectively with the union. . . . What would General Motors officials do when the injunction was served upon them? First, they would probably laugh and say to the sheriff, "Don't be silly, that judge holds a union card." And on sober second thought they would probably get mad and want to do something about such a judicial process...
...fresh one. All kinds of color schemes are here, for the first of the newest day. The upper rim of this blazing sun is gold and yellow, right from the start. The air is crystal clear. Am I imagining? Maybe. Maybe not. Altitude does funny things to people. Some laugh foolishly. Some get cracky, with as little reason. What does it do to me? I don't know. My mind is inside itself and can't see its image without some kind of a mirror...