Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional politicos, who had largely ignored the Wallace junket, tried to laugh the whole thing off. They said it was all just a stunt to boost the circulation of Editor Wallace's New Republic (circ. 80,000), and that his audiences, promoted by the Communists, were chiefly a confused jumble of comrades, fellow wanderers, crackpots and wild-eyed college kids...
...York went 250,000 promotion pamphlets, inviting Americans (for $7.50 a year) to "Laugh with the British- at themselves." Editor Edmund Valpy Knox hoped to appeal especially to ex-G.I.s who got acquainted with Britain in World War II. But even for total strangers, he believes that Punch will still pack a wallop. Said Editor Knox: "If you get down to the basic principles of humor, I think you will find that what makes people laugh is the same on both sides of the Atlantic...
Beaten, McFeely finally managed to give Hoboken a laugh. Said he: "It is the will of the people...
...four-foot "blocks" from their great stacks into the river, and how to help sluice them through the dams with a pike pole. "Wish I had a soft job," the men sometimes yell at him when he comes by in his red and black checked jacket; but they laugh when they...
Warning to all undergraduates studying for exams: do not read the latest issue of the sometimes-monthly "Harvard Lampoon." It will break into the sober, solemn atmosphere of studiousness; it will spoil the gloomy mood surrounding faded and illegible lecture notes; in short, it will make you laugh...