Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hummon had the last laugh. By week's end three Georgia judges had heard suits concerning his claim and the counterclaim of Lieutenant Governor M. E. Thompson to the governorship. The judges chose Hummon in two cases out of three...
George's soldiers have rendered the most devastating verdict on him. They call him O Aghelastos-he who does not laugh. Once, at the Oxford Union, he achieved an epigram: "The world is too full of bookworms and blue stockings, long-haired men and short-haired women." This was in 1928, and not new then; no subsequent wisecracks by George are on the record...
...restoration, George paced the floor of his sparsely furnished, silk-paneled study, trying to find a way of broadening Greece's rightist Government under Dino Tsaldaris. When Tsaldaris and the centrists refused to compromise, advisers urged the King to intervene. But at this point, "he who does not laugh" was back in character. Said he sadly: "Ohi-no. I am a constitutional monarch. I can do nothing." The civil war continued, the people remained afraid and very hungry...
...makes a pass at a girl, was killed because the Army regarded it as detrimental to the dignity of a major's rank. Still another casualty was the film's only sure-fire chuckle-which had been placed, with fantastic bad taste, en route to Hiroshima. The laugh: a flyer asks, "Is it true that if you fool around with this stuff long enough, you don't like girls any more?" Says Robert Walker, "I hadn't noticed...
...laugh at TIME'S comment on Taft: "He has great political courage...