Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pounding his own stomach to stress the point, Tunney rummaged in his Shakespeare pocket for an apt quote. He found one-"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-but abandoned it with a nervous laugh in midline. The rest of the quote: ". . . he thinks too much. Such men are dangerous...
...fact that some people laugh out loud at the thought of President Robert Taft is due, to a large degree, to Bob Taft himself. Heretofore, the nation has had only dim and somewhat prejudiced glimpses of him. In the days before Pearl Harbor he was an unpopular isolationist. He has certain rough edges, a twangy voice, and is impatient of nonsense. He is.no orator. Generally he is regarded as a cold fish, a reactionary, an enemy of Henry Wallace's Common...
...wait and undermine the last vestiges of sovereign government in France. France, said Koestler, "has become a Troy, with the wooden horse standing on a pedestal in the market place; the children pat it on the nose, and the grownups, who know better, do the same, with an embarrassed laugh, pretending not to hear the ominous noises in its belly...
Maybe I have no sense of humor (whatever that is), but I usually enjoy the same jokes and witticisms that other people laugh at. And in my opinion the most readable portion of the last Lampoon was the ads. A careful reading of the entire issue brought me not a single laugh, not even a gentle smile. Things have reached the point that I read the Lampoon with the same attitude with which I approach Cunningham's column--just to see what the fool has to say this time...
...Norman Burdett Nash, rector of 91-year-old St. Paul's School (Concord, N.H.), looked his part. His close-cropped mustache, his energetic briskness, his ready laugh, seemed to fit the schoolmaster more than the top-rank churchman. Yet among graduates of haughty, hockey-playing St. Paul's it has been no secret that the school and Headmaster Nash have not been an ideal couple...