Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Straton, in making this statement was wrong, as all who heard him at the Union will agree. He did say what the newspapers quoted him as saying, or at least said words that implied that thought. Whether the laughter in the audience caused by this statement was a sign of approbation and approval, or of admiration for the man who would dare to say, such a thing in such a place, is hard to determine, but that he said it and that it raised considerable furore at the time is certain...
...butcher pedestrians to make a Sudbury holiday, and buy the antiques of a more restful past. A Detroit Isis is born again with renewed vigor in the American pageant. They used to laugh at the car that now is dead. "But there is no death. There is only laughter," said Mr. O'Neil's Lazarus...
Actor Campbell Gullan performs notably as the jealous huband exercising his shoddy, maniacal little power over the frightened girl. His support lends much point to that baffled breathlessness, that twitching of the limbs and lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...
Last week, a dull-faced, clumsy-looking man sat in his parlor; he was trying to entertain his friends. "Wait a minute." he told them, "I will get my accordion and play it for you." At this there was a soft hoot of derisive laughter. Girls nudged each other, men smirked and snickered. . . . Soon "Alf" came back into the room carrying an automatic "accordion" which he had purchased at the Mayfair Plaything Stores, in Manhattan. The instrument was beautifully made; it had cost $70, although a cheaper one could have been procured; it contained, completely hidden, a tone chamber made...
...august;" he wore, not pantaloons, but a baggy tailcoat; he could make a thousand people roar with laughter by saying nothing, merely looking at his left foot...