Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first fight, the referee, a ghastly old bruiser, turns out to be the brother of Joe's opponent. "When ya knock 'm out," he tells his brother, "go ta dat cawnah, Frankie, and I'll count." Then comes a belt-bursting belly laugh: to the pictorial amazement of the referee, Joe not only knocks Frankie out with one punch, but knocks him clean through the floor boards of the ring. But the canvas is unbroken and cradles him as he sags slowly, dreamily out of sight...
...hours his voice boomed confidently through the House of Commons as he explained just how far Britain could loosen its belt. Only thrice did he pick up the little teacup from its green tray and fortify himself with sips of rum and milk.* Once he drew a laugh as he absently rubbed his high, sun-browned bald dome, announced a reduction in the purchase tax on hair-waving and drying machinery...
When we record the scenes about the Yard, it shall be with enthusiasm; we shall mark the times and deeds with truth; and we shall look for the humanity in man. We will laugh, and let him protest whom the jester's sock pinches. We shall ask questions and they shall be blunt. Come with us, Veritas; we want your company, and we hope that you may profit from ours. We will have an answer ready when you ask, "Quo vadimus...
...years passed and the menace of Hitler became unmistakable, Editor Schoenberner experienced the pain of watching most of Simpl's staff succumb slowly but surely to the enemy. Strange palsies seized the hands of cartoonists when they were asked to depict Hitler; a poet who had made Germany laugh with his verses "On Hitler's Mustache" took to wearing a brown shirt. When Hitler's minions broke into the offices to tear them apart, they found a magazine that was already dead by its own hand...
...last show-scheduled for the usual 30 minutes-the audience held Danny for 91, while he went through his whole repertory of pantomime, mimicry and musical burlesques. He called up kids from the audience. Once, midway through a song, he doubled up with a great belly laugh. "You won't believe this," he howled, "but a little girl in the third row is looking at me through binoculars." At the end of this zany, record performance, the audience sang Auld Lang Syne...