Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leacock Plays on the Drama?He Gets Hearty Laughter...
...would be this: ' Don't encourage any enterprise looking to Canada's annexation of the United States.' ... I entreat you for your own sakes to think twice before undertaking management of the territory which lies between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande." (Laughter...
...Warsaw, Poland's capital city, was given a dinner in honor of Marshal Pilsudski, first ex-President of the Republic. The dinner commenced auspiciously. Everyone behaved in a gentlemanly manner. Later, the flowing cup ran over. With it effervesced the courage of the assembled guests. From rollicking laughter and sounds of "Have you heard this one?" the attention of the party was directed to serious, biting and calumnious speeches. It was Marshal Pilsudski's turn to speak. He said many unpleasant things about his critics. Some he called "crooks." Then with one mighty roar: "The insults that have...
...discontent lash the national waters.' Lord Justice Adkins, who presided, mentioned the Court's one-hour time limit for counsels' speeches, and said he had known great English advocates who would find an hour insufficient to get within speaking distance of the real point. Much laughter greeted this sally...
...entire Chamber (not excepting Bombacci's friends) broke into uncontrollable laughter at this point; for Bombacci some months before had hidden in the coal cellar of a Bologna restaurant wearing a chef's cap, to escape the clutches of Fascismo. The episode ended here...