Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the patriarch Abraham was 99 years old the Lord told him that his wife, Sarah, would be the mother of nations and of kings of people. Hearing this, the patriarch fell upon his face, roared in laughter shouting: "Shall a child be born to him that is an hundred years old? And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear...
...Ringling Bros.* on his career as circus-man. Back in the late '70s, the brothers organized a concert troupe, discovered that the addition first of a contortionist, later of a trapeze act, materially increased box office business. Then came a menagerie in the shape of one hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant. But gradually the show grew bigger, the animals wilder, the freaks more peculiar...
...dumbfounding that it caused the laughter of relief was Juan de la Cierva's Autogiro, which he drove himself, repeating the gooselike antics of his Bryn Athyn, Pa., demonstration the week before (TIME, Sept. 2). He landed in a 20-ft. chalked circle, a simple feat for his machine...
...nuts on rush orders with their own hands, and days in the offices of friends, trying to raise money and postpone payments. William Crapo Durant, twice head of General Motors, left a room full of irritated financial patrons to eat apple pie, and, mouth full, to roar full-chested laughter at a squib...
...stately halls of Kronberg castle there was last week babbling in many tongues, laughter, chatter, applause. Two thousand delegates to the International Educationists' Congress fought for room in the old knights' hall. Those who could not get in scurried off to the great privy council hall where loud speakers squawked preparatory to relaying speeches from the knights' hall...