Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haunted House. People have a peculiar and rather disagreeable way of reacting to dramas and pictures that are meant to be frightening. They laugh. Their laughter, of course, is not an expression of humor but simply of nervousness, a way of reminding themselves that it's all make-believe. When an insane murderer fixes his gaze on Chester Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted...
...emboldened by the tastiness of chance corpses that War-winter, a female lynx stalked Grischa for days, till suddenly he noticed her crouching to spring. So drolly did her crooked eyes and fringe of whiskers remind Grischa of himself, that he burst into a roar of terrifying human laughter, and unwittingly saved himself from fangs and evil claws...
...headed "Attaboy. " Critic Newman had called the $10,000 "a fair price for a fair symphony which is what Atterberg has delivered f. o. b. as per esteemed order of yesterday's date, and hoping for continuation of valued custom.";,Composer Atterberg took the same tack, let his laughter reverberate through the press: that all along he had meant it only as a joke; that he had deliberately plagiarized and that only one critic had guessed. The $10,000 was his, he said, and the laugh on them. But to many it seemed singularly empty laughter. The Columbia Phonograph...
...read Thoreau, Emerson and Whitman, Hugo, Dumas and Shakespeare. He remembers what he reads and lives by a lot of it. His god is one of Life and Laughter who belongs to no organized church...
Edgar Howard of Nebraska-long hair à la W. J. B. A heavy face also resembling the Commoner's. A high whiny voice, pleading at times. His favorite sport is asking "innocent questions" which convulse the House with laughter, for he has wit. He calls himself "a free Democrat." At home he is a newspaper publisher...