Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great aria, caro nome, came, prodigious in its demands upon the strength, purity and agility of the upper soprano voice. Walska's voice faltered badly. At the final top note she emitted a series of faint squeaks and there was silence-no tone came. The audience began to laugh. The fiasco was ghastly. Then, as throughout the rest of the opera, it was evident that Walska's top tones were not strong enough to carry across the footlights...
...Agnew, director of Punch: " Sailing from New York on the Acquitania, I said to interviewers: ' There are too many gigglers in America and I feel that it requires too little effort to make Americans laugh. Americans are gayer and enjoy themselves more than the British, because America is more prosperous than England...
Irving S. Cobb: " Said I (apropos of some remarks by E. S. Agnew, Punch Director): ' Americans have a better sense of humor than the British because they have the British to laugh at. The British can't laugh very well because it is difficult to laugh over adenoids, with which all Britishers are afflicted.' " Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler...
...audience wanted to laugh at the hero when he overdrank so Mr. Gilbert for the moment gave up the role of leading man for that of comedian, Considering the plot of the play and the tender feelings of his Rose of Sharon, we should have expected a rather different attack. Disgust rather than amusement should have been the reaction of the audience...
...Ford built their permanent home on the banks of the Rouge in Dearborn, where they were boy and girl lovers together?in sight of the cottage where they dreamed the future together. The house is large, not pretentious; there are servants, but the footman does not laugh up his sleeve while " Mr. Ford takes the jackets off his potatoes boiled-with-the-skin-on." Over the fireplace is inscribed: " Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice...