Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France, the music and the laughter ceased. Among the people in the galleries, watching the delegates settle into their orchestra seats, a thought took all but tangible form. Some of the more perceptive journalists sensed and reported...
When she had been removed, Toscanini the Temperamental stood indecisive, holding up one hand while he mopped his balding head with the other. Then he turned back to the musicians, and there was deep laughter in his eyes. He raised his baton, looked quickly over the orchestra and said, "Well, the waltz...
...altar. In spite of a well worn plot, this film brings out the best of English humour. Shying away from Hollywood's gag-happy style, "On Approval" specializes in a never ending series of sly, subtle touches that provide an hour and a half of continuous laughter rather than the customary two and a half of spasmodic guffaws...
There was the mood of the people, too. Although adequately dressed and seemingly well fed, they were pale from long days of living and working in cellars. When the fighting had passed, many expressed their relief in outbursts of uncontrollable laughter. But M.G.ers, watching the way little children shuddered at the noise of heavy bombers passing overhead, the way their parents listened to the heavy shells going over, knew that their next mood would be profound depression. Yet, somehow, M.G. had to work with and through them. It was not a happy prospect...
...Armored Division and 104th Infantry ("Timberwolves") moved in, a church bell rang crazily, not in joy but high and loose-lipped like the laughter of a hysterical woman. A mud-stained veteran stared with dazed eyes at the desolation about him murmuring over and over, "Ain't it awful! Ain't it awful!" Silent Rubble. In most districts not one street was untouched, not a single house undamaged. The outer areas of the city were 85% destroyed, the center 95% rubble. TIME Correspondent Sidney Olson, who went in with the first troops, cabled: "The first impression was that...