Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comic Strips are good medicine for neurasthenics. Said Homeopath Frederick W. Seward: "Violent explosions of temper are emotional sprees . . laughter is compensation for them. I advise neurasthenics to look for the funny side of life, subscribe to comic magazines...
None pleased; the galleries liked the men from the U. S.?big MacDonald Smith, Joe Kirkwood with the curling smile, Jim Barnes, a long, dour man of little talk and less laughter. Before, behind, around these, the populace of that part of Scotland rowdily trailed, pushing prams, spilling lunch baskets. It was a nuisance to the police and the players...
...flea has no friends," continued the General amid laughter. "I am sorry to say it was ex-Speaker Lord Ullswater who led the vendetta in the Lords against the flea. I trust nothing was in the Speaker's chair which accounts for Lord Ullswater's ferocity. If it had been the woolsack, there might have been something...
Shanghai. In gloomy night, on the outskirts of the international settlement, seven coolies held up a car driven by W. W. Mackenzie, British Engineer, and Miss Mary Duncan, British subject. As Miss Duncan reported, Mackenzie got out of the car and asked the coolie? what they wanted. Horrid laughter greeted him. A shot was fired. Mackenzie scrambled back into the car. A volley of bullets followed him and he fell mortally wounded. Miss Duncan, slightly wounded, seized the wheel, drove to the concession...
...zslav Novak, embodies the old German folk story of Toman who, betrayed by his beloved, cannot resist the decoy of the sidelong smiling fairy whose kiss is death. He rides to his bride in a ballad for strings with a background of contra bass. Learning of her treachery, his laughter whirls in the brasses; exhaustion succeeds; the love cry faints into the sliding enchantments of Venus Yertocordia, to culminate at length in a triumphant orgy of brutal discords. "The finale," said one critic, "is like awakening from a nightmare...