Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pureness, the kindliness, the gentleness, the sweet serenity of his [Burbank's] life and character. For his services to humanity, his great contribution to science, his great love of his fellows and above all his love of little children, we praise Thee." Dr. Gordon with gentle wit, to sympathetic laughter, put his arm about Mr. Burbank, saying: "We would be delighted to receive Luther Burbank into the fellowship of the church. No doubt he would increase in grace under my ministrations...
...whose college education left him, chiefly, with a taste for liquor. The woman golf-champion and others in the semi-smart group that one presumably encounters on Long Island are also around. Mr. Fitzgerald has a home on Long Island and should know what he is laughing at; his laughter is often bitter. Perhaps that is why he is spending most of 1926 in various parts of France...
...discover that but one man in all "merrie England" did have a sense of humor, and that man was the very imaginative and reverend. Father Ronald Knox, radio broadcaster extraordinary. Although this is a rather conclusive indictment of English humor, few Americans would answer for the unanimity of laughter, if such a prank were played in Boston...
Lyrics, legs and laughter are best displayed in Tip-Toes, Artists and Models, The Student Prince, The Cocoanuts, Princess Flavia, The Vagabond King, Sunny, No, No, Nanette...
...ghost of Punch was seen in broad daylight astride an ibis in Mt. Auburn Street. And sure enough, as years went by, the fact was oft remarked that young Lampoon was not a common child. For hours he'd ponder over some inanity, and then would roar with laughter at his own conceit. And this, together with his marked plebeian tendencies and over-strong aversion to the Irish nation, got it whispered round that Mistress Advocate had had some secret traffic with old John the Orangeman. But John, whene'er the thing was hinted at, swore roundly in his well...