Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Mr. Bidwell: "There was nothing risque. . . . There was not a laugh in it, and St. Joan was as solemn...
...would take two hours to eat a meal. And with no logic at all would he shriek, sob, laugh...
...touch for some time. She has a violent affair with a sombrely pompous Fascist, whose physical charm temporarily overcomes her common sense. When he refuses to marry her, on the ground that the scandal of being her husband would make him ridiculous, she finds herself able to laugh as his enemies force him to drink their health in castor oil. Relieved of her hero, she takes on an earlier flame, whose sense of humor more nearly flatters hers...
...Berlin from his parley, with President von Hindenburg, banged his big desk for the benefit of a British correspondent and shouted: "At the risk of appearing to talk nonsense I tell you that the Nazi movement will go on for 1,000 years! . . . Don't forget how people laughed at me 15 years ago when I declared that one day I would govern Germany. They laugh now, just as foolishly, when I declare that I shall remain in power...
...libraries. Behind silver-rimmed spectacles his blue eyes are spring cool. Thin-lipped, with a slow, warm, easy smile, he talks softly in a rich baritone. He is an unspectacular but able public speaker, much in demand. For an opener he can generally get a laugh with this old chestnut: "A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other." In personal life Harold Dodds might be any one of 10,000 college professors, except that he has no children. For fun and exercise he plays golf; a 90 delights...