Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What should be the reception, then, of a guest who, upon being presented to a tiny child, sinks his fingers into its ribs and tickles it into a paroxysm? Who-when the child, exhausted by hysterical laughter, has fallen asleep-continues to walk heavily about, talking at the top of his voice and laughing blatantly...
...announcement of the offer, in the December number of Vanity Fair, explains the nature of the contributions desired: "We are not looking for solemnly serious treatises which might be submitted for a Ph.D. thesis." says the notice, "but for articles which will evoke laughter from our readers, whether undergraduate or alumni...
...subject of puppy love is usually smothered in laughter. The acuteness of youthful suffering is dismissed by the world because the suffering is temporary. Youth forgets its love affairs, but the fire burns deep. Perhaps in its very intensity it burns itself out. Young Woodley, written by John Van Druten (an English schoolmaster), depicts the time when the blaze is fiercest. Young Woodley has fallen in love with the pretty wife of his mathematics tutor...
...excursionists. Boston, however, provides as good a 'laughing audience' as you can get. They laugh, but they do not applaud, and perhaps this is why they have their bad reputation. Boston audiences are appreciative, and they are intelligent. The little subtleties are noticed, but they are acknowledged by laughter rather than by applause...
...more than an hour last night, Neal O'Hara '15, Humorist for the Boston Traveller, kept a large and appreciative audience at the Union convulsed in laughter...