Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LAUGHTER IN THE NEXT ROOM (400 pp.) -Sir Osbert Sitwell-Little, Brown...
...usually worthless trying to interpret an audience's reactions and using that interpretation as a criterion by which to judge the play. But last night, when roars of laughter greeted each stupid blunder made by the generals and the visiting congressmen, it leaves some doubt as to whether Mr. Haines has succeeded in making his point. Stupidity is laughable in chimney-sweeps and char-women, but it becomes something else when found among men with the whip in their hands...
Reimann plunged on: "This assembly is furthermore formed against the will of the German people . . ." There was bitter laughter. "Speaking of mandates," yelled one delegate, "why did the Russians call off the Berlin elections this year...
...Proietti almost banged his head on a low-hanging lamp as he jumped up to embrace Vittorio. Twice he embraced him, crying: "Comrade Excellency, Comrade Excellency, we shall win over to Socialism all of Arsoli's youth." Then an idea struck Proietti; he burst into long peals of laughter: "Why, we may even get Catholic Boy Scouts to turn Socialist...
Bright Young Books. The bright books followed one another like delayed bursts of sinister laughter. "Spotty, a little flat, not quite so good," some readers said. But they were still the funniest books of their kind being written, and Evelyn Waugh was Britain's No. 1 satirical novelist...