Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author MacNeice does his best work when he is laughing up his Celtic sleeve at the cordial disrespect with which the general run of things inspires him. His letter, Hetty to Nancy, turns a camping trip into a near-masterpiece of burlesquerie, describes, among other things, a pneumatic mattress-"sighing like something out of A. E. Housman;" the three kinds of Central Iceland scenery-"Stones, More Stones, and All Stones;" a tourist party of middle-aged Englishwomen - "with ankles lapping down over their shoes and a puglike expression of factitious enthusiasm combined with the determination...
...persuaded the postage stamp magnate to leave Washington just to be an unannounced guest at a primarily Harvard dinner. He remarked this to a friend nearby, feeling rather superior because of his prowess in recognizing the face of one of the higher-ups in the government. The indulgent laugh of the other after looking at the person indicated failed to ruffle him, and he continued to point out Farley to his other neighbors at the table. With similar effect...
...group of Frenchmen were about to spring full-armed from the sewers of Paris, seize the Chamber of Deputies and make use of the facsimile signatures of Cabinet ministers, such a monstrous plot was no laughing matter. The key to Last week's riddle in French popular psychology was, of course, that strong nerves and shrewdness are leading French characteristics. Jean Frenchman figured that if the Reds, Pinks and Pale-Pinks-i.e., the Communist, Socialist and Radical Socialist supporters of the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps-were content to let Justice and the police take their...
...moment with only the 1,100 (500 kg.) and 4,409 lb. (2,000 kg.) payload marks. When the world press published these facts about supposedly good friends, both Germany's Air Ministry and the Heinkel Works closed their doors to reporters and Germans who no longer laugh in public about public matters chuckled privately behind their hands...
Snooty critics are accustomed to laugh out loud at the work of aged Artist Waugh: 1) because it is limited almost entirely to realistic paintings of surf, and 2) because his surf pictures are "all alike." Although Artist Waugh paints the sea as it looks from not greatly dissimilar rocks near his Cape Cod home, sympathetic critics find his paintings no more nor less alike than the inexhaustible aspects of ocean water. In eschewing all human subjects for the sea, F. J. Waugh is actually akin to abstractionists like Georges Braque, winner of the Carnegie first prize this year (TIME...