Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...women spoke, were spoken to spoke together. They shook their heads?with laughter for the past, with apprehension for the present...
...Laughter. The first generation of suffragists "got the bad eggs." said Mrs. Upton. "The next got?just eggs. All we got was stuck-up noses. ... I remember somebody asking me once if it was not a terrible sacrifice being a suffragist and losing all my social position, and I replied that it wasn't all gone because I had dined two nights before with the President of the United States...
Bringing Up Father. For ten years, various travesties and musical digressions on the family of Mr. George McManus' comic strip have been trouping through the one-night stands. One of them has suddenly, and quite unaccountably, turned up in a Broadway theatre. Loud was the cynics' laughter. Manhattan will not endure for many nights a one- nightstand company dressed up in 42nd Street clothing. Both as to wit, music and performance the offering was generously condemned as the season's dead...
WHAT PRICE GLORY?−The rumble of guns and the snatches of laughter that made war a stern but not so unhappy hell on the Western Front...
...Professor remarks with resigned but well-put cynicism that "sometimes one tires of pouring knowledge into buckets without bottoms." He receives the response that he expects, laughter, denoting a class, conscious but not convicted of sin. The dances...