Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gordon-Walker held that the song was unworthy of a great corporation. Asked Mr. A. Beverley Baxter (Wood Green, Unionist): "Then should we suppress Gilbert & Sullivan's 'A policeman's lot is not a happy one?'" Laughter. Mr. I. L. Orr-Ewin (Weston-super-Mare, Unionist): "Is it suggested that 'Don't go down the mine, Daddy' is the cause of low coal production?" Renewed laughter...
...show is Tallulah. She carries the cast throughout, handling her part with magnificient control, perfect timing and a steady sense of the theatrical. Her rapid transitions from laughter to tears, from love to anger, are done with a facile dexterity that leaves her colleagues just a little startled...
...wants to read and the critics who know what it ought to want to read is as old as literature. I can remember that when I was a boy it never occurred to anybody that Mark Twain might be a great writer, and the suggestion would have brought laughter. Later on, I saw the same attitude taken toward Jack London; but the public went on reading Huckleberry Finn and The Call of the Wild, and it still does...
Einstein is probably happiest among children, with whom he loses all his shyness and whom he keeps in gales of laughter. His kindness to children is proverbial. One little Princeton girl used this to good advantage: she got him to do her arithmetic homework for her. When suspected, she confessed simply: "Einstein...
There was no laughter when Ala told how Russian Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov, acting as a "friendly mediator," had urged Premier Ahmed Gavam to grant the Azerbaijan autonomists' demands. Said Ala quietly: "That, to my mind, is an interference." Said Stettinius: "I believe more than ever that it would be a mistake to drop the case. . . ." The Council agreed. But Russian-sponsored rebels continued to hold Azerbaijan...