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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hellenes, and that Milton had a quiet little joke at his expense. The inscription reads, "When you compare this with the form Nature herself fashioned, you will say that the picture has been engraved by an unskilled hand. Friends of mine not recognizing this portrait will please laugh at the poor copy of a poor painting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Milton Edition in Widener Displays Vengeance Wreaked by Bard on Poor Engraver--Rare Bibles Shown | 10/15/1927 | See Source »

...capital structure has been inflated in respect to present condition of shipping. The corporation has made money, but not enough to pay dividends on $51,725,000 preferred stock outstanding. Thought of dividends on the $49,871,800 common stock has caused investment salesmen to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: I. M. M. Reorganization | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Sunrise. In Germany, F. W. Murnau, Ufa director, made The Last Laugh and Faust. Last week at a showing of his first Hollywood film, people looked to him, as usual, to repeat. In Sunrise he has a meagre story of a clod of a farmer who almost drowned his wife before realizing that he loved her. It is based on the story, "A Trip to Tilsit," by the German Hermann Sudermann, and manages to remain picturesquely soporific for a long evening. Janet Gaynor (seen in Seventh Heaven) contributes a pathetic beauty to the role of the girl-wife. The Student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1927 | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

Professor Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, Reader in Psychology at the University of London, last week offered corrections to the popular notion about laughter, its causes and significance. "The really happy man," he said, "never laughs-or seldom-though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension-and the happy are not overstrung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laughter | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...dialectic of laughter, from boor to baronet, is thus: shout, guffaw, laugh, chuckle, smile. Inferior forms of laughter would seem to be the titter, the giggle, the cackle, the roar, the snigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laughter | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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