Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point-he coolly implied that everyone knew he was a liberal and that Taft was a conservative -if not a reactionary. He shook thousands of hands with warmth and enthusiasm, answered hecklers so quickly and with such a disarming appearance of candor that he almost always stirred applause and laughter...
...field of comedy, however, the Trib players allow themselves to romp with such abandon that the script becomes a contender for the laughter of the audience. The challenge offered by William Shakespeare in "The Taming of the Shrew," for instance, was met on the more or less neutral grounds of Mutual Hall last week and the Trib players won by a technical knockout, a decision with which the audience seemed clearly in accord. Mr. Duvey had rounded up some clever, earthy comedians and they succeeded in making "The Taming of the Shrew" a lot of fun for everyone...
...irrelevance that is a measure of her anxiety, Frau Leber-she is a Catholic and a Socialist-calls upon every international authority she can think of to witness Berlin's plight: the International Court, world Socialism, and the Catholic Church. (The Russian officer joins in raucous S.E.D. laughter at mention of the Pope...
...processes of sex and pregnancy with simplified diagrams and a minimum of anatomical detail (at first the tails of spermatozoa were shown wiggling in their movements to reach and fertilize the ovum, but technical advisers feared that schoolkids might associate the wiggling with human swimming, break into nervous laughter...
...Brensham, all the thieves and poachers are lovable rogues, all the women quiver with massive bursts of laughter, all the intellectuals are wise, all the drunkards poetic. Natural eccentricity and tolerance leave no place for nasty gossip and nagging. The vicar keeps live bait in the church font and nesting-boxes over the porch ("My dear fellows," says he to his wardens, "can you think of anything less sacrilegious than a pair of spotted flycatchers...