Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge with antic contortions on the side lines. For the present cheer, with the pounding weight of lung-power behind it, with its full energy directed to the field and to the game there being played,--let us substitute an ingenious concoction of shrieks, whistles, walls, and hoarse laughter, the latter evincing that we are, beyond a doubt, jolly college boys and full of zest and snap on all occasions, whether our team is good...
...organization's attitude and sense of humor then one can only sigh for the return of a more puritanical regime. That these displays have any claim to respectability there can be no question: they are disgusting, vulgar,--they are nauseating. They only excuse for their presence is the laughter which they might evoke. And this fall, the climax of several years of increasingly disagreeable spectacles, even the opportunity for that excuse has disappeared. Never, not even in the cheapest of cheap vaudeville houses, has the public--the general public in and around Harvard Square and the University public--been offended...
...sophomore son at University of California) have pooled potentialities and are appearing in a play written, directed and acted chiefly by the house of Gleason. Like the memorable Is Zat So?, this new play can selom be confused with Art. It is frank and fertile; filled with incessant, lifesize laughter. It tells of two vaudeville strollers who buy a small town hotel and mingle intrepidly with the lives of the peasants. Both Mr. Gleason and Miss Webster are unfailingly ribald, and the evening is made more so by the shrewd performance of an unknown, one Harry Tyler, as the broken...
Last week all Paris throbbed. Vivacious midinettes asked, que feras?tu quand ils viennent? (what are you going to do when they come?), and the noon hour re-echoed to laughter, accompanied by much coquetry of response...
...dialectic of laughter, from boor to baronet, is thus: shout, guffaw, laugh, chuckle, smile. Inferior forms of laughter would seem to be the titter, the giggle, the cackle, the roar, the snigger...