Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once more a mere citizen, after six years as Dictator, he visibly recovered all the bubbling jollity he has lacked of late (TIME, Jan. 20). "Don't quarrel over these, boys!" he cried with a rumbling laugh as he handed out two copies of the statement announcing his Cabinet's fall to more than 50 clamoring correspondents...
Lincoln was not a happy man. Said his friend and partner Herndon: "His melancholy oozed from him as he walked." Depression led him into absent-minded habits, so that he would walk through the streets in a trance, laugh at the wrong times, and speak out of turn. Once for two days he neglected his law business while he sat, surrounded by compasses, calculations and rulers, trying to square the circle. He split rails and infinitives with equal ease: when he had written his letter of acceptance of the Republican nomination in 1860, he took it to the Springfield superintendent...
...news from London that the Times is to make a radical departure in the direction of human interest and, owing to the increasing popularity of the cross-word puzzle, will include one such feature daily in its pages, in addition to the usual chess problem. With--a hearty laugh the business man turns to an adjoining column to find that for the first time in ten years Congress is to open discussion on the Prohibition question. Perhaps he becomes aware of that unpleasant feeling which follows untimely mirth--perhaps not. But the utter ridiculousness of the similarity...
...This is nothing to laugh at, you gallery people. You'd better go home and take your children and have family prayers and destroy that book...
From time to time historical figures enter the book: Viscount Grey, Lord Balfour, Newspaperman Harmsworth (afterward Lord Northcliffe). Of Grey, Author Tomlinson makes one of his characters say: "I see nothing in him, nothing. If he were not so silent and stately, people would laugh. He is silent because if he spoke you would know...