Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will prove her sincerity by tickling the Allies into good humor and assuring the world of her childlike simplicity. Taking French leave of a German prison is drollery itself. And the notion of a reward should bring a roar of laughter from those who know Germany's financial state. "Laugh and the world laughs with you" is still a live adage across the Rhine. It will be interesting to see whether the convict-clown will be finally discovered playfully torpedoing canal barges in the proposed trans-Alpine waterway, or indulging in a lively game of "pease-porridge-hot" with...
...upon the question of the uses of an education. Ordinarily Mr. Butler's name is associated with guines-pigs and light humour, but on this occasion it is better to take him with a grain of the serious; it does not become the recipient of an expensive education to laugh when that education is under fire. Not that the article attacks the "higher knowledge" in any virulent manner; indeed, it is lenient, almost favorable. What it does criticise-which is far more important-is the ability of each individual to turn his education to the best possible account...
...derbied custom inspectors are fascinating creatures, especially when they soften to $30,000 bribes! And who will tire of the clever crook and the daring detective--the be-all and end-all of adventure in Long Island Society--stage version? In addition to the thrills there is plenty to laugh at, by which we mean genuine laughter...
Many people agree that prohibition is a calamity, others are satisfied with calling it a mistake, but all unite in saying that the federating features of the whole situation is in the fact that we are still able to laugh about it. But we must not laugh at it; in order to be effective the calamity must be complete. The country should bury itself in gloomy meditations; to make fun of in is but to sin again. Our Director of Information of National Prohibition Headquarters has made the statement that prohibition jokes are to be suppressed, with the theatres...
...Lord Chamberlain as Shakepere conceived him--an aged but still efficient courtier and diplomat, ready with counsel and device, but kindly humoring the vagrant fancy of the young prince--not the doddering burlesque of age with which many an actor sets on some quantity of the barren spectators to laugh...