Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just when they are about to inflate prices. They want an alibi to gouge the public, so they bark at the East India rubber planter, whose empire protects him better than the Napoleonic sphinx of the White House, who, campaigning on the back of a cow, protects our farmers. [Laughter and applause...
...return to Menelaus. Then there is "Bring! Bring!" by Conrad Aiken, good short stories with a bad title, a collection of the stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, "Caravan" by John Galsworthy, and Jane Austen's "Sanditon," hitherto unpublished. Despite the CRIMSON'S obituary of Sherwood Anderson, his "Dark Laughter" seems to me a great improvement over some of his other books. Michael Arien's "May Fair" is on the order of his other books, but after the first flash he becomes a little tiresome. Maurice Baring has produced another entertaining and delightfully written novel, "Cat's Cradle." "Suspense...
...this is much too romantic for a realistic age. Better the gargoyled truth of Sherwood Anderson's sardonic laughter, laughter which he finally admits is--black. But if life is not an afternoon of tea and toast and silver spoons, neither is it a night of sin, sex, and sentiment, and there is no particularly cogent reason why anyone should waste it reading laboratory manuals with colored jackets...
...crowd drowned him out with laughter. On the floor below he swore in some 30 members of his Administration and shook hands, grinning, for several hours. Finally he drove away to stop at an undertaker's to pay his respects at the bier of a friend's mother before going to his New Year's dinner...
...audience had no difficulty in finding the 1000 advertised laughs even if the reviewer did. On occasion the uproarious laughter from the orchestra proved so infectious that members of the cast were obliged to turn to the back of the stage in order to regain their composure...