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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every week I read LETTERS with interest, and have a great laugh at all the advice you get without the asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...from which issued increasingly faint gurgles as a gun went off in someone's face, or a man got run over by a trolley car. Mr. Hollisheimer gently closed her eyes, and she breathed more easily. Mr. Sever thinks he made a mistake. She should have been allowed to laugh herself to death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...After he has conquered Asia, he declares himself to be the son of Jupiter, and the whole East believes him, save only his mother and Aristotle and a handful of Athenian pedants. But if I, nowadays, were to declare myself the son of the Father Eternal, every fishwife would laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Non-Fiction | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...friendly, and I have put poison in the kitchen to prove it.'" All this was a very good joke. It meant that 95% of the U. S. citizens who heard about the King's speech at all got a totally false impression-and, perhaps, a good laugh, a titter or a heehaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rogers-Brisbane Version | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Washington reporters laugh at it. They say it has point, that the thing about the Fish family is that its generations are close to one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Fish's People | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

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