Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether to laugh at this proposal or take it seriously was a problem the Conference simply did not face last week. A train carried Chancellor von Papen to Berlin, another sped Premier Herriot to Paris. Sir John Simon had already left for London?all three to consult their Governments. In Lausanne, where the Reparations Conference was not supposed to discuss military matters anyway, it adjourned pro tempore...
...move in the Yard among us, and pause to stare at Holworthy 14. Families have come, fiancees have come, the girl from Cotuit last summer has come, sight unseen they have come. There is music, and silence, and darkness, and a great light, and a throb, and a happy laugh. There is confetti and a band, and tall gentlemen in reds, and blues, and even whites. There are prayers and poems, and songs, and hymns and odes. They will not weep for Adonais...
...moonlight they saw the sparkling water, heard the long drawn chuckle, felt the oppressive Cambridge heat. They smiled with heavy assurance each upon the other. Here was a method more amusing and quicker than a cold bath. And in the waiting silence a profounder laugh was added to the long drawn chuckle of the fountains. Up went the windows, out went heads, down went the windows, out came boys. And in the next half hour six hundred Harvard seniors made an aged tradition. It was as simple as that," said...
...Laugh Parade Funnyman Ed Wynn came ambling on stage aboard a camel. Forgetting the correct word to make the camel kneel, he tries several commands, finally whispered ''Goldman Sachs." The camel collapses in a heap...
...city's sleepless roar that throbs across the city's zoo, rises every night a roar of animal voices, voices from Africa and Asia, from the polar ice, the plains of Tanganyika, the primeval forests of Borneo. Lions groan and tigers moan. Elephants trumpet like thunder. Wolves howl, hyenas laugh, monkeys screech. But all cry the same thing: "How long must we remain captive? What have we done that we should suffer so horribly? Why are we here? Why?" Sleepy humans do not answer, do not even hear...