Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connor's doubt about the ability of the unemployed, the San Francisco dock strikers, etc. to laugh, is unduly pessimistic. I walked across the Embarcadero in San Francisco last July, while the tear gas guns were popping, and at least 1,250 striking longshoremen were laughing their sides off, apparently because a policeman had fallen off his horse and had shot himself with his own tear...
...What America needs is to be laughed at, and to laugh at itself, loud and long, and what the members of the Liberal Club need more than anything else is to go on a sustained...
...kill the Townsend Plan without inviting political reprisals from thousands of their constituents. Robert Doughton, 71-year-old, 6 ft. -3 in. tall Chairman of Ways & Means, did his colleagues a notable service by cross-examining Dr. Townsend in a way that made it easy for them to laugh him out of the Committee room...
...comes down the pipe. The point is not that world-wide affairs are unimportant; they are. It is not that college students should not interest themselves in government to the point where they will enter public service themselves after graduation; they should. But what America needs is to be laughed at, and to laugh at itself, loud and long; and what the members of the Liberal Club need more than anything else is to go on a sustained...
...reading Dickens; you hear them boasting about their remarkable powers of endurance even at the age of 81 and 79 and 73. They mention philosophers, and one of them recalls the day when "the name Spinoza didn't mean any more to me than a mouthwash." At this you laugh out loud; they stare at you sternly, and you hastily depart. You realize, as you leave, that Rome DID fall...