Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey seems to be familiar, because as I understood him, he said that it is almost impossible to go into company without some one inquiring as to 'who has the supply?' Well, I have not had that experience, I regret to say, or do say without regret [laughter]; and if the Senator has had that experience and has been in such company he has had an experience which has not come...
...girl burst into peals of laughter. "The old original Kidd himself, eh? Well, don't kid me, sport...
...capably, decently written, they perhaps poured out their coffee or lit a cigaret, before their eyes again returned to the page. But the first sentence of General Rogers' obituary made them gasp and hold the paper closer; the second and third sentences made them cry out with laughter or scowl with well-bred disapproval, according to their temperaments. For the article under the headline began as follows...
Affronted to the quick, Herr Schuerff caught the first train back to Vienna. There news of the event was received in Parliament "with laughter." President Hainisch, however, was with difficulty restrained from challenging Professor Guertler to a duel. Instead he decided to demand a personal retraction...
...tragedy. The baby is consigned, through friendly sailor hands, to Africa, perhaps to become a prince again-his mother never knows. The new proprietors of the pub permit her to become the drudge-of-all-work in her old home. Just that. But as David Garnett tells it your laughter and, almost, your tears are tribute...