Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Herald: "One of the player's many statements made from the platform which caused some special laughter among his hearers was when he said: ' I have more music in my fingers than singers in their throats. I am very modest...
...determined to recreate the 1890's for us. In the face of a healthy vanity which is spreading slowly through contemporary writing, he poses in gold tights and a cap and bells. I admire his courage and his independence; but I'd rather laugh my belly-laughter with Rabelais than titter and snicker over Carl Van Vechten...
...author is forced to see himself in the Mirror of Truth? And what of the wit and humor of his lectures? For beside Professor Copeland's technical knowledge he has an even greater asset--a rich and unusual sense of humor. He believes after Moliere in the "cure by laughter" and he is amply justified by its success...
...year's debate by the sudden illness of their third speaker which prevented his appearance. Nevertheless the foreigners were keener and more subtle than their American opponents, "using the University men's arguments to their own advantage time and again and bringing the house down again and again with laughter at their brilliant jibes." The Harvard speakers, though less eloquent, displayed excellent logic and reasoning powers, and covered their ground more thoroughly than the Englishmen...
Equipped with white gloves and a white silk topper, he attended the ship's masquerade ball. His appearance called forth laughter, which he took for applause. " He drew himself up proudly and marched about the hall...