Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finally, the third part of my speech will contain a polemic, a part for which, as you know, I am particularly fitted [laughter], and during which I wish to amuse myself by goading all internal and external enemies of the Fascist regime [approval...
...said: "Gentlemen, it is time to say that the police must be not only respected, but honored [applause]. Gentlemen, it is time to say that man, before feeling the need of culture, felt the need for orderliness. It can be said that the policeman preceded the professor in history [laughter], because, if there are not hands armed with handcuffs, laws become dead letters...
...time to tell the world, because it has been said abroad that they amount to 200,000 [laughter]. It has been said that in Milan alone 26,000 persons have been sent to forced domicile. All this is stupid, even more than it is cowardly...
...sideshow of Ringling Brothers "between Fat Lady and Armless Wonder" and "affects white lace hats, woolen mittens and high laced shoes" has a story which is far from mirth-provoking. Could it have been written up for you by O. Henry, it would have provoked tears rather than laughter. The facts are as follows...
Speaker Whitley (soothing) : "No doubt the Right Honorable Member merely desired to imply that the Secretary of State for India sometimes expresses himself extravagantly." (Laughter...