Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst trained seals, cartoonists and columnists, who could not afford to laugh it off, got into the act as gracefully as possible. Amiable Rhymester Nick Kenny wrote a poem ("Loafing in a barroom, see them in a row; Silly women barflies, putting on a show. . . .") The doggerel brought Poet Kenny a nasty note from a woman in Brooklyn: "Confidentially, I think you're going nuts...
...Rueful Laugh. Though Boss Arvey's candidates were political newcomers, they were newcomers who might be more promising than many a well-known party hack. His men: Adlai Stevenson, 47, the U.S.'s alternate delegate to the U.N., who will run against shopworn Governor Dwight H. Green; and Paul Douglas, 55, University of Chicago professor of economics, who will try to unhorse rabble-rousing Senator C. Wayland Brooks...
Most Democratic workers knew Candidate Stevenson only as a name. A grandson of Grover Cleveland's Vice President, he is a suave, able, well-liked socialite lawyer with an anxious expression, a rueful laugh, a lemony sense of humor-and a tongue in his head that has won him a reputation in Chicago for soundly progressive ideas. He has been away from Chicago for nearly seven years. He served as a wartime assistant to Secretaries Frank Knox, Cordell Hull and Ed Stettinius; he went abroad on several missions for the State Department. Stevenson has numerous friends both...
...play about with the staple food of Scotland," cried Tory M.P. Lord William Montague-Douglas-Scott, "we believe it should be done at least by a separate order, and not classified in the same sentence as dehydrated potato flour." Some M.P.s laughed, and Lord William rounded on them. "I see nothing to laugh about," he cried. "It is an insult to one of the finest foods produced in the northern hemisphere...
...What's the difference between nether garments and trousers in Scotland?" asked schoolmasterish Henry Strauss, Tory member for Combined English Universities. "Kilts!" shouted a Socialist backbencher, and the Sassenachs laughed again. But it was the Scots who had the last laugh after all, for the English, who had no kilts to fall back on, were themselves having trouser trouble...