Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LORD ULLSWATER : "1 would like to ask the Government if the word 'animal' includes 'insects.' I have in mind the flea [laughter]. I am not a trainer of fleas [more laughter], but I should like to know what would happen to a man who .withheld from performing fleas their natural food, which I presume is human flesh? Grave doubt exists, I think, by reason of the word 'animal' not being scientifically defined...
LORD DANESFORT : "I did not realize the importance of this matter until the noble lord who has just sat down raised it [laughter]. I shall most certainly consider it." (Renewed laughter...
LORD DESBOROUGH, ruefully: "I wish somebody had brought fleas to my attention before." (Loud laughter...
...William Davidson (Conservative) caught the eye of the Speaker (as arranged), rose, asked a question: "May I ask whether the right honorable gentleman is aware that Manna won the Derby?" [Loud cheers, laughter and cries of "order...
...deliver Bach's Christmas Oratorio, the little town of Bethlehem, Pa., lay still. Conductor Wolle raised his baton. A clap of thunder split the sky like a peasecod. Lightning assaulted the darkness through every shivering window, and the place seemed, for a moment, to be filled with whirling laughter, like the mirth of demons. Conductor Wolle brought down his baton with the air of a man casting out a devil. The festival began...