Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each Sunday in the London Express, Columnist Nathaniel Gubbins writes to & for the ordinary people of Britain (TIME, March 8). They understand him, laugh with and at him. On Nov. 21, before the Cairo and Teheran conferences stirred the world, Columnist Gubbins (alias Astrologer "Old Moore" Gubbins) wrote...
...enough to make a cat laugh. Old sea dogs were laughing too. But the sick citizens of nautical Norfolk, Va. could see nothing funny about a three-day fever followed by a cold, clammy feeling and nausea. They began getting it last month. The name with which Navy doctors dismissed the ailment-"cat fever"-gave Norfolk folks the creeps...
Maps and Money. Moscow, Lauterbach reported, seems vaster, busier, more confident than it was eight years ago when he last saw it. "The people look thinner, laugh less. Nearly everybody has a member of his immediate family wounded or killed. The war is followed closely and intently by families scrutinizing the great colored wall maps which hang everywhere. I searched Moscow for a week for a map and finally found a store that expected a shipment in the morning. The map is not good but sold out a thousand in a few hours...
...Massey menaces their happiness by wanting to marry another woman. In the fall of 1930 Mr. Massey has stopped wanting to marry her, but Miss Cornell wants to marry another man. In the spring of 1942 Miss Cornell and Mr. Massey, still married, have a quiet laugh at their onetime nonsense...
...first cousins lifted the big black coffin to their shoulders. "My kinfolks . . . walked in the procession behind with their arms around their girls' backs. ... It was the greatest bit of excitement that I had ever seen, just to walk in the great procession and hear the people laugh and talk. . . . Before we had gone far up on the mountain, Brother Baggs . . . said: 'Brothers and sisters, let us sing Beulah Land!' If you don't think it's hard to climb a mountain and sing, you try it one of these days. Try it when...