Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear their speeches translated by Mr. Camerlynck into the English tongue. But I know what I always think when I hear my speeches translated into the French tongue, which is that it is a matter of most agreeable surprise to think that I have lapsed into such unusual felicity [laughter]. If all my colleagues around this table entertain the same views that I do-and I believe they do-they will thank me for setting myself up as their mouthpiece and giving to our friend Mr. Camerlynck our warmest tribute of thanks and admiration." Turning to the little Professor whom...
There is a price to be paid for this kind of verisimilitude. Laughter and tears may be close to one another, but the distance between naturalness and high emotional crisis is so far that it is difficult not to lose conviction at one end or the other of the journey. Both Miss Cowl and Mr. Merivale ring a tone less true within Peter's dream than out of it. Perhaps it is a subtlety that this should be so in a dream land...
...Committee this past weekend, one is especially significant. Although proposals for the elimination of the second half kick-off and for moving the goal posts back to the goal line were not acted upon, and Glenn Warner's suggestion that points be scored for first downs was met with laughter, rules regarding the "dead fumble" and the try for point after a touchdown from the two-yard line instead of from the three-yard line, were among those adopted...
Shields' face whitened, a spurt of scarlet doused his shirtfront, he tumbled to the ground. The onlookers were men of stone. Suddenly they all laughed loudly. Chagrined and crestfallen. Shields got to his feet. The laughter was hectic and cruel. Abraham Lincoln had loaded his musket with squashy, scarlet-juiced pokeberries...
...they let him go bankrupt they will lose the money he owes them, form a corporation to save him from his creditors on condition that he marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips, and eyebrows, convinces you that laughter and humanity can exist under a starched, striped shirt. Wittiest shot of this good picture is the happy ending-Menjou arranging books in the window of a Fifth Avenue bookstore so that their titles explain to his sweetheart that he has gotten a divorce from the heiress...