Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great relief not to have to assume the duties of an office. . . . I suppose you are interested in what I have been doing while I have been away. . . . I have done a little writing that'you can read if you want to?I have read some of your writing [laughter]. And of course I have done a little fishing. I think I have caught 200 speckled trout this spring...
Henderson (sweetly, provoking roars of laughter on all sides of the House): Lord Lloyd told me he had seen Mr. Churchill...
...states . . . five ordained ministers." Louis Edwin Van Norman, chief business specialist of the U. S. Department of Commerce, declared that sex appeal is no longer a business asset, counseled gravely that Prince Charmings met in the business world "may not be charming. . . may marry another woman . . . may die." Ladylike laughter greeted the report of the educational committee. Over $155,000 had been disbursed during the year. Beneficiaries were 1,000 children-999 girls...
...like life. Weeks spent in discussion of the proper date so that no numeral man will have to break training on the night before the big game are accompanied by weeks of arrangement with butchers and bakers and electricians. Months, almost, of careful thought, a few moments of careless laughter in the dim light of quadrangle and common room and then the sun rises upon janitors picking up waste paper and commenting upon the abraded condition of the parquetry floor...
...reform. "We are often too serious" said the editor of the Nation, a journal which has claimed to have a greater popularity among Harvard undergraduates than any other weekly--excepting The Saturday Evening Post. So the Undesirables who invaded the realm of the Puritans roared in revels of laughter as they received the import of Jack and Jill's climb up the ancient hill. It was an important occasion and the necessity for humor was one of grave solemnity...