Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, Mr. Hoover in this letter to Senator Borah reaches the sublimest height of epistolary humbuggery ever attained by man. [Laughter...
...mind on Candidate Hoover's reply to Senator Borah's questionnaire on Prohibition (TIME, March 5) and spoke for the space of four columns in the Congressional Record. So successfully did this speech go off that, afterwards, Senator Neely felt justified in editing the parenthesis [Laughter] into the Congressional Record no less than 13 times...
...meaningless epistle he was evidently as irritable and belligerent as Thrasymachus was when, because of his inability to answer questions propounded by Socrates, he ill-naturedly accused the great philosopher of having 'a stuffed nose' and of not having used his handkerchief as frequently as decency demanded. [Laughter...
...Hoover] is more exasperatingly evasive than the wicked wag whose sobbing young wife, when asked the cause of her grief, replied: 'Every time I asked my husband if he likes my biscuits he tells me that I have beautiful eyes.' [Laughter...
...have ignored this question. If you do not immediately answer it "yes" or "no," the righteous wrath of vast multitudes of voters will wax hot against you and, like a great conflagration, consume you and your vaulting ambition on the floor of the Kansas City convention.' [Laughter...