Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Caraway and other Democrats are inclined to laugh at items on the Republican tariff schedules. Another object of their laughter has been the flexible tariff (the clause in the Tariff Act whereby the President is authorized on recommendation by the Tariff Commission to increase or decrease specific tariffs by not more than 50%, so, as to equalize cost of production between the U. S. and principal competing countries). They point out that the President has increased the duty on certain grains and various minor products; that in spite of the Tariff Commission's recommendation, the President has declined...
When the question of the tariff comes up again, the strange melodious call of the bobwhite is sure to be heard in the Senate, followed by a mocking echo of Democratic laughter...
...farthest from rod, arm, club or bow? Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like the ale in his cup. Or fancy Lou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman, Leo Diegel, Canadian open golf champion, Edwin F. Harkins, famed fisherman, and Er. Paul W. Crouse, champion U.S. bow and arrower, indulging in a contest over a set distance, the archer...
...without the gates. The story seemed ideally suited to this type of entertainment; the characters generally suited, vocally and otherwise, to their assignments. Best of all were the chorus work?really extraordinarily fine in its ensemble singing?and the costumes of James Reynolds. There was rather a lack of laughter, but it did not seem to matter. The Vagabond King is as good a romantic operetta as one can normally expect. In fact, far better...
There was at the dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back...