Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more members who wish to take an active part in the proceedings by question or in debate, and a Speaker often carries to his pillow an acute sense of loss for the speeches that were undelivered?speeches no doubt much better than those to which he has listened. [Laughter, cheers...
This facetiousness pleased the mob. Waves of laughter lapped back against the amplifiers. The seat-hunters shuffled on, craning to see what was causing such a great sound from the platform. The sputtering, hissing Klieg searchlights played down on a tall, dark, ministerial figure grasping the high lectern with both outstretched hands. Despite the speaker's height, his appearance was partly obscured by the three panels of aluminum microphones behind which all the convention speakers had to function. Chairs kept on scraping. Seats clacked up and down. The drone of conversation died away slowly as the Voice resumed...
...thorough appreciation of the College. Nothing drives this home more forcibly than the annual Class Day. To the casual observer it might appear merely another day of meaningless jubilation and glamorous festivity, superficial and transitory. To the initiated, to those who can penetrate beneath the gay laughter, the forced smiles, the whirl and blaze of confetti and streamers, is revealed a deep insight into a romantic trend in the history of Harvard...
...turned over to a gypsy band for proper punishment: a facial mutilation which leaves him with a perpetual and ghastly grin. In a travelling circus, Gwynplaine finds employment as a clown; he winces and tears muddy his eyes when thousands crowd around him and go into hysterical laughter. One girl, Dea (Mary Philbin), loves him and does not laugh at him; she is blind. Another old girl, Duchess Josiana, lusts for him because of his strange disfiguration. Queen Anne hates the duchess and tries to humiliate her by restoring Gwynplaine to his place in the peerage. There follows a superb...
...stake. Lazarus is convinced that death is a misconception; men, he suggests, should forget sorrow and they should laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh. The actors in the play give a large part of their time to an illustration of this precept; at one point, in the Pasadena performance, laughter, concerted and solo, continues on the stage for four successive minutes...