Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since such readiness to give away British territory profoundly shocked the Commons, Scottish Laborite James McGovern scored more than a laugh off the National Government by shouting, "Suppose we give Ethiopia the Irish Free State...
...savage form he rocked Braddock with a right to the jaw in the seventh. Then in the eighth round Braddock sent a harmless blow to Baer's chin. And, again going comic, Baer electrified the crowd by staggering about in a circle, then straightening up with a great laugh and repulsing the hopeful challenger...
...taken over the bumps. He was termed "the nine-lived Congressman who sees not only over our heads, but through them and is in the infra-red district of politics. Mr. Little's presentation was the best handled part of the program and brought many a hearty laugh from the spectators...
Curtin recovered from his wounds and found Howard again. Dobbs's murderers were caught when they tried to sell the burros, but the scattered treasure was never recovered. Old Howard was philosopher enough to laugh, practical enough to see that his position as medicine man was not as bad as it might have been. Curtin shrugged his shoulders, went on to pastures...
...played her hand right. Once when she had an urgent letter to send and all her bell-pealing brought no servant, she found the lackeys busy playing cards, offered to take one of the men's hands while he went out to post the letter. She loved to laugh, and her guffaw was famous. But nothing suggestive ever roused it: only something very innocent or something very obscene...