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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial of gazing on this chaos within and without has left him too weak to finish off his sketches, for they remain rough lines and only half grayed in. Abner Dean's world in all its nakedness is still good for a shutter if not so good for a laugh...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...remaining 30 years of her life) and helped to recoup for herself and her five children (of whom Anthony Trollope was to become a far more famous author than his mother) the money lost in "Trollope's Folly." Her new readers of 1949 are likely to laugh, both at Britain's Trollope and Jackson's America. Like Mark Twain, they may even decide that of all books about the U.S. by visiting spitfires, they "like Dame Trollope best." Wrote Twain in one of the suppressed passages of his Life on the Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feathers from the Eagle's Tail | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...with his grandmother, who made him get a job as a store "cash boy"-a trying occupation for a boy as sorely tempted as Fields was. Then, at the age of 14, he became a juggler in an amusement park. After that, his only work was to make people laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Made Curmudgeon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Morocco in the small hours, and as she was leaving in a dignified way with a big manufacturing person from Philadelphia, she came within range of Bogart's panda. At this exact moment a funny person asked her if she wanted the beast. She emitted a tinkling laugh and reached for it. Then this awful person, Bogart, charged out of nowhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Night Life of the Gods | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...only sailors that laugh in Holland are the ones who rent their boats to other people...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

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