Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your drawers . . . tying up each leg at the ankle and buckling the band around my waist. They hung under, and were concealed by, my hoops. It did well while I sat still, but as I walked . . . the clanking destroyed all hope of concealment. ... I could not restrain my laughter, which sister said was very unseemly...
...Laughter from the Galleries. Brewster was interested in Tydings' comment on "this measure being of a bastard parentage." He thought it was rather strong language, "particularly as the origin of the committee was in the gentleman who is now President of the United States." He recalled that 13 Democrats had voted against the reorganization act-"with the spirit of which they are now so much concerned"-and 17 were not interested enough to show up for the vote. On the other hand, he recalled, 23 Republicans had voted for the measure...
...galleries joined in the laughter from the floor, which prompted Missouri's Forrest Donnell to demand that the galleries be rebuked. But as the Democrats' Joe O'Mahoney observed, there was no reason why "the occupants of the gallery should be blamed for the hilarity in the Chamber...
Among those ruins, music and laughter were an unusual sound effect. The policeman, who was new on his beat in Berlin's ghostly, once posh Zoo district, decided to investigate. He found a door marked only with the sign "Please Pull Hard." He pulled. Inside were smartly dressed men & women, lounging at a long bar or drinking champagne at small tables. A singer and piano player trilled out melodies...
...Roosevelt at the train [five nights before the Democratic convention in Chicago] he pulled me down and whispered in my ear-'Henry, I hope it's the same old ticket.' " Asked if he thought he had received a double cross, Henry burst out into loud laughter, but said nothing more...