Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...extensive repertoire of Labiche is almost all one great satire on "bourgeoisie" life in France. His works have for several generations furnished a healthy hilarity for the French theatre goer. In creating gaiety and laughter for this audience, Labiche followed Rabelais more than Moliere, who was apt to censure the vices of his time in thoughtful and didactic works. Labiche, nevertheless, borrowed much from Moliere, and, in fact he and his contemporaries were "gleaners of Moliere's harvest." One of Moliere's most successful types, that of the bourgeois who is bold abroad but with his wife "timide," is often...
...stand, but in the centre of the season ticket section, and consequently must have come, in part at least, from undergraduates. Harvard men have always treated opposing teams with courtesy; why should they now cheapen themselves by making members of their own team the butt of their sense less laughter? SENIOR...