Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have become thoroughly familiar with sports they once knew only through the often unreliable and overblown prose of sportswriters. "I'd travel around in the 1920s and 1930s and tell people that pro football was a good game," says Illinois All-America Red Grange, "and they'd laugh at me. 'Did you ever see a game?' I'd ask them. 'Well, no, they'd say." Former New York Giants Halfback Frank Gifford, who did not come into the National Football League until 1952, remembers going home to California after the season was over...
...WHOOPEE! Your article on Johnny Carson was delightful, but long overdue. Carson has certainly become as authentic an article of Americana as baseball, the hot dog and the ten-gallon hat. His special contribution is that he has probably made more people laugh than anyone else in the history of mass media...
...they catch you, it's six months in Leavonworth, simple as that. And six months of Leavenworth is nothing to laugh at because it doesn't count on your army time...
...story is that the intricate sound and tape effects that go with Carson's cabaret act got snarled by a technician three shows running during an engagement at Miami's Eden Roc. Johnny called up New York, says a friend, actually sobbing. "They didn't laugh," he said. Carson blamed Bruno and bought out his contract...
...good at hustling or pool. Many of the old men in overcoats who lounge all day along Hanover Street or Salem Street could run the table on the best of them. As for hustling, hustling is a subtle game of just misses and sincerest attempts. At Uncle's they laugh when you miss an easy shot and say tough luck when you call the striped ball and the solid blue goes...