Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from a cultural afternoon concert to a typical jazz party for the first year men and their prom-trotting friends. The dormitory singers continued to compete, but they attracted less and less attention. At the Jubilee of the class of 1927 in 1924, red, yellow, and green lanterns, music, laughter, and one of the largest crowds of merry-makers on record detracted from the effectiveness of the winning Smith Halls chorus. In 1925 the singers attracted even less interest, and the class of 1929 saw them fade from the picture at the same time the Memorial Scholarship award was discontinued...
...last visit he ubiquitously exhibited bad manners but last week he seemed the authentic dreamer of such works of genius as Tales of Wonder, A Night at an Inn and The Laughter of the Gods...
Sherwood Anderson, author of Dark Laughter, collects news from Coon Hollow, Spratts Creek, Troutdale, Marion and many another Virginian village, prints it in two weekly newssheets. When he bought the Smyth County News and the Marion Democrat (combined circulation, 5,000) he explained to whom it might concern: 'I am doing it primarily to make a living. My books have never sold." Last week Editor & Publisher Anderson confided to readers of the Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have...
...black nigger boy called Henry Christophe. He listened to their conversation, his clever gentle eyes following their shots with melancholy speculation. "They talked of their Negro mistresses and of the comely mulatto whores who supplied Cap null with whatever its quiet, oppressive nights had of glamour, passion, and forgetful laughter. . . ." Henry Christophe never interrupted his masters...
...urban Negro's unmistakable contempt for all things white. Many Caucasians will call it a lewd, crude book. It is certainly lacking in inhibitions. That is why it is more convincing, and hence a more significant work, than Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven. "Liquor-rich laughter, banana-ripe laughter," says Jake. That, plus sad rolling eyes, is Harlem...