Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music & Laughter. A Hilton hotel has never lost money. But some have lost a good deal of their old face and manner. In its aloof pre-Hilton days, Los Angeles' Town House frightened merry transients away with its forbidding, exclusive atmosphere. Then, in 1942, came Hilton. Out went the haughty air. In came bright flowers, elaborate bars, hot music and floor shows. Employes were instructed to stop freezing guests and make them feel at home. Soon Hilton's old Texas friends and others long awed by the Town House began to make it their California headquarters. Up went...
...place he deserved to have in our country-he faced a national court. He is Cyril Coburg-Gotha,* a driver, motorcyclist, adventurer, spy and son of Ferdinand [Bulgaria's World War I Tsar] ... a man who . . . calls himself a 'Bulgarian,' and the Bulgarians answer with sarcastic laughter...
There was a ripple of laughter when Rhode Island's usually glib Senator Theodore Francis Green got his history mixed, gave Colorado's six ballots mistakenly to Roosevelt & Truman instead of to Dewey & Bricker. But with that little mixup over, the scene went on sedately to Wallace's final formal announcement of a fact already known to the entire world. Now at last it was official: Roosevelt & Truman had received 432 electoral votes, Dewey & Bricker...
...findings of Dr. Biesanz and his wife did not bear out the belief of ancient, exploring Spaniards that Costa Rica is heaven. But they could agree with other travelers, enchanted with Costa Rica's orchids, soft laughter, democratic tradition, lush countryside, that it is like no other place on earth...
...played endless practical jokes. When one of her victims sent her a dead rat in retaliation, she screamed with laughter, sent it back with a lily on its chest. She loved her two dogs-a Sealyham, Chips, and a Scottie, Chops-summoning them with ear-splitting whistles. In moments of remorse she would sink to her knees to pray...