Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subjects and the strains of The Girl I Left Behind Me, rendered by the Royal Marines band, on his 26,000 mile voyage to South Africa and South America (TIME, Mar. 23). At London, Premier Baldwin said good-by in a sprightly 15-minute conversation punctuated frequently by hearty laughter. Prince Henry accompanied his eldest brother to Portsmouth, but Prince George, without tonsils (TIME, Mar. 30), was not permitted by his doctors to sally forth into the raw air of a cold March. The. Sunday Times paid the Prince high tribute : "Millions of his fellow subjects in these isles will...
...Amid laughter, he continued...
WHAT PRICE GLORY ??Blood drops, cognac and the rattle of ribald laughter that, combined, make war at once the business and the pastime of the U. S. Marines...
...Mary's Ankle", both figuratively and literally, we never realized that there was in our midst a group of people so bent on convulsing an innocent audience. We came prepared to chuckle and remained to laugh hilariously. Even the orchestra waxed uproarious, and when a weary musician stoops to laughter you may be very sure the play is a "howling" success...
Prudent critics have arraigned the artists and musicians of this latter day, not without some show of justice, for being jongleur who, tongue in cheek, execute their insolent pastiches, sing their thin songs with nothing in their heads but a bitter and windy laughter. These critics have listened to the compositions of Composers Ravel and Satie, whose music laughs at music, have seen the works of Sculptor Nadelman, whose sculpture laughs at sculpture, until the accumulation of all this malign mirth has inspired them to plead: "If we must laugh, let us laugh honestly. This mockery is unworthy...