Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Constitution. His popularity with the Republican party was evinced in 1876 and in 1880, when he came very near being nominated, and in 1884, when he obtained the nomination in spite of the base charges against him which were exhumed from their sepulchre by the malicious mugwump. (Laughter.) The career of Mr. Blaine in the Senate and as Secretary of State was conspicuous for its straight forwardness and honesty. Mr. Blaine favors civil service reform. When he ran for President in 1884, he was opposed by only four Republicans of national renown, one of whom, Carl Schurz, was hired...
...greatest orators and statesmen this country ever produced. I should like to see a mugwump who could write a book as Mr. Blaine did, and sell half a million copies in three years. They couldn't do it among them, even if every mugwump turned book-agent. (Laughter.) No other man awakens so much enthusiasm as Mr. Blaine does, and no other candidate can get the nomination. (Applause...
...small that none but the brave, and moreover the very strategical, will be likely to secure more than a word with any one of them. But no one retires discouraged. Little systems of student satellites revolve about the centres of attraction; the hum of conversation and ripple of laughter are unceasing; while Dr. and Mrs. McCosh move about among the groups, exerting a genial influence over the entire assemblage...
Love likes not always laughter...
...might we, ridiculing all things like the great cynic, despising all things that are of this world like the sublime Futze, live delicious lives amid imperishable laughter at those follies and absurdities of Puck, Life, Punch, the Faculty and the Lampoon that alone make life worth enduring...