Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...students, that he has but one hour to live; that his ultimate salvation, after penance in another world, is contingent upon his finding in that last hour and in that town, one believer in all things traditional and holy. The teacher seeks for such a believer. His students laugh him into anger, his wife goes disgruntled to her baking, her child follows her, and all the town makes merry, except one poor individual--the "Fool...
...fresh air, while the University at large sits back and "dopes" it out. And yet the fearful storm of controversy over the game and the feverish excitement before the big battles--and only thirty men out of a possible 2,000 are deriving any out benefit--it is to laugh...
...efforts of the first year or two; and when the impetus of novelty has gone, is liable to fall. But such fears with respect to the Dramatic Club will beset no one who last evening witnessed the performance of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander." To make a Cambridge audience laugh at anything heartily means success. To make it shout with laughter at some things that are dear to it, is a triumph; and this "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander" achieved. That the absurdities of western and of Newport society should amuse those present is not surprising. The real power...