Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...queer," Edward Lear once wrote to a friend, "that I am the man as is making some three or four thousand people laugh in England all at one time. . . ." But to staid and sensible Victorians, who seemed to have a safety-valve passion for nonsense, there was nothing queer about it. Edward Lear's volumes of limericks, his world of Jumblies, scroobious snakes, runcible spoons and Dongs with Luminous Noses, set English gentlemen roaring into their port and schoolkids giggling into their bedtime hot milk...
...served him: "I've seen 25 Belgian premiers come & go in the last 25 years, and I was curious to see from close by what a permanent premier looks like." He thought he had fathomed the secret of Mr. King's success: "He knows perfectly when to laugh, and especially not to laugh while others are laughing...
...finding out how many times he'd pulled the routine, how many times the same, audience had applauded. How Many Times, From the song of the same name. Now if these bright boys could follow his thoughts, he could sing it and hand them another laugh. But enough enough. All were waiting...
...paper protests of the U.S. Government against crooked elections in Poland and Hungary or against Petkoff's condemnation make the dullest Communist leaders just laugh, because they know as well as you that the U.S. Government is neither prepared nor willing to back its protests by that which counts, i.e., by force...
...People are ungrateful to the ones who make them laugh," observed Producer René Clair, cinema specialist in laughter-&-tears. "They are grateful to the ones who make them cry. The idea of beauty is associated with tears...