Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel sure that the one person who would be most amused at Mary Elizabeth Robinn's letter would be the Prince himself! He is such a wonderful sport and can afford to laugh...
...actually be grateful to him. Tickling is splendid for a baby, and a noise when it is going to sleep will promote its future. It was so stated last week by Sir Harry E. Bruce-Porter, London specialist in children's diseases. He explained that tickling makes babies laugh and thus develops their lungs; that loud sounds when they are composing themselves for slumber prepare them for "the rough and tumble of later life...
...determine just what it is. The author himself is characteristically vague about it. "For some a comedy" he says, one imagines with a roguish twinkle, "and for others a drama." Or, as Shakespeare said it with much subtler whimsicality, "as you like it." "I don't care whether you laugh or weep", says the "enfant terrible" of the Russian Theatre, "as long as I have succeeded in arousing your interest, in stimulating your curiosity, in helping you while away a few dull hours in this dull existence of yours, in a word, if I have succeeded in amusing...
...people scoffed at Noah" is the warning which appears boldly on the oilskins; but there is always a chance that the laugh may be turned on Lampy. The opinion that it will be was expressed last night by the forecaster at the Blue Hill Observatory...
...Saturday it will be the pleasure of the Crime to laugh with and at our Yale guests and to make them feel at home by laughing at ourselves. We even offer them the opportunity to make themselves at home by laughing at us. In order to facilitate and concentrate the general amusement, the Crime takes pride in announcing its appearance on Saturday morning, and solicits contributions from the college and even from the Lampoon...