Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day sees a hockey game against Princeton and a basketball game with Harvard. A girl's skiing contest at 10:30 a.m. will help you laugh off the morning-after. Frat parties resume at 9 p.m., if they ever stopped, and the Carnival Ball begins...
...Capp, creator of the shmoo, got a double laurel. The National Laugh Foundation named him Cartoonist of the Year; the Yale Record gave him a scroll as 1948's ranking humorist...
After the staff had finished the night's work, they gathered in nearby Lorenzo's, the office pub, to drink things over. They talked loudly, drank vigorously, and tried to laugh often. When City Editor Wayne Adams walked behind the bar for a moment, someone cheered: "Look-you've got a job already." But for all the forced jokes they felt disillusioned and lost. In a few hours, the wake was over; the lights went out at Lorenzo's for the night, and at the Star for good...
...daily press laugh the incident off," Winn writes, "with nervous jokes about eating crow, and jittery gestures in the direction of a pseudo good-natured sportsmanship." But the press is Big Business. How can the public interest find protection? It could be hoped that some of the publishers themselves "would begin to get concerned about the situation they find themselves in and voluntarily do something about it. . . . there is little evidence that that will be the case." Nor would Winn favor the imposition of government controls. "Were that proposed, we would have to take our stand with the publishers...
Look at the world today and see if the people of Europe and Asia have anything to laugh about, now that Communism has captured so many of them...