Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, "All the King's Men" is a play, excellently presented, which while it does not make its audience reach for the handkerchief to wipe away tears either of sympathy or of laughter, nevertheless supplies just enough of both comedy and charm to keep each fresh, and afford at the same time a very pleasant evening's entertainment...
...preaching proceeds, Fortune played pinochle with fat and red-haired Mrs. Lucy Gurget. Dressed in a red flannel petticoat, yellow blouse and beribboned bonnet with improbable cherries that rattled to her constant laughter, Mrs. Gurget "cooked" for Mr. Solomon Tinkle, basked on the deck of his boat...
...which he swung his arms, shot his cuffs and shouted that he took back nothing he had said about the Senate rules. This time it was Charles Curtis and his little vice presidential speech that the Dawesian diatribe dwarfed. But where embarrassment was four years ago, there was only laughter this time. It was a self-burlesque, a Dawesian jape...
...applause, the audience sat still as pins. Once, high in a box, a little dog barked until his mistress had to take him outside. He was not a common little dog, however. He was a little dog who has attended many a concert. His barking was certainly not laughter "to see such sport." He was really excited. His name is Picciu. His mistress is Madame Toscanini...
Many a man has gone muzzy-minded over the writings of Gertrude Stein. Architecturally, linguistically, they hold meaning only for introvert imaginations. To "normal" minds they are just a loose jumble of words which induce mystified laughter and not much curiosity...