Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Francis Arthur Powell Aveling, Reader in Psychology at the University of London, last week offered corrections to the popular notion about laughter, its causes and significance. "The really happy man," he said, "never laughs-or seldom-though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension-and the happy are not overstrung...
Discussing the President and the cowboy costume worn by President Coolidge in the Black Hills, Mr. Manly wrote: "And the moving picture audiences [watching news reels]roar with laughter as this bewildered little man teeters down the steps in his vaudeville chaps and timidly grasps the reins of the gift horse he fears to mount. So the Roman populace roared as Nero, seeking their fickle favor, twanged his lyre and in his effeminate voice sang the poor ballads which he had himself composed...
...Moderator Davis, a leaflet of the Chicago Theological Seminary says: "A sturdy body, attached to Chippendale legs, and surmounted by a bulldog profile-that is your first impression of him. Afterward his twinkling eyes and gigantic laughter would attract you" He was born in Vermont; worked in his youth as a railroad telegrapher; preached, while his hair was yet red, at Newtonville, Mass., near Wellesley College and Boston; made the Chicago Seminary attractive to midwestern and southern divinity students. He is < years...
William Lyon Phelps (professor-critic) wrote in his department, As I Like It, in June Scribner's magazine: ". . . Sometimes in solitude I explode with laughter; sometimes I wake up in the night to laugh at some memory. How can one help laughing in and at a world like this...
...they sailed?and behind their backs, in the U. S., flippant, shallow-minded cynics and "sophisticates" snickered at them privately and in smart-charts, or wriggled in cheap self-consciousness to think that these, the butts of so much "horse-laughter" at home, should "parade American crassness before the eyes of Europe...