Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maryland, who has made a speech that will please every Catholic priest in Baltimore and bring down upon his obedient head the blessings of the Pope? . . . Mr. President, that is about all I care to say at this time, but I want to assure the Senator from Mexico ? [Laughter...
...galleries shook with fear, whilst the stumps in the Potomac River bobbed up and down in unison with his vociferous periods." [Laughter...
...tail a million miles long. It gave off an iridescence; and some persons grew frightened until scientists assured them that while the tail was indeed a million miles long, the whole affair did not have about it or in it an ounce of substance. [Laughter.] Likewise, the speech of the Senator from Alabama gives off an iridescence, but is bereft of even an ounce of substance...
...Instead of chastising the dog he simply took up the fragments of the book and wrote on one of the remaining leaves: 'Beppo aid this when he was drunk.' As to the speech of the Senator from Alabama, I can say: 'He made his speech when he was excited.' " [Laughter and applause in the galleries...
Pass law against crime. Thugs will all die of laughter...