Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole my information-and I have a good deal-goes to show that Hitler and his police are still in full control and that the Nazi party and the generals have decided to hang together [laughter]. The strength of the German Army is about 300 divisions, though many of these are substantially reduced in numbers. The fighting quality of the troops is high...
...makes it all clear by explaining that the main basis for soldier humor is self-pity. Kahn, who also writes for the unpitying New Yorker, declares :"0ne man is apt to feel fine when he has reason to believe another feels worse." Griping sends soldiers into fits of morose laughter...
...vote, with no recording of yeas & nays. President Roosevelt suggested that every Congressman should be willing to "stand up and be counted" on this vital issue. He said he felt he was within his rights in suggesting this, "as an interested citizen." At this the House seethed with mocking laughter...
...Warrens changed the mansion into a gleaming monument to the gingerbread era in American architecture, filled its spacious, high-ceilinged rooms with rollicking laughter which had not been heard there for decades. The Warren family is self-sufficient. The Governor and his wife (the former Mrs. Nina Palmquist Meyers, a widow, whom he married in 1925) have never entertained much. Mrs. Warren explains: "I had five children in six years, and you can't do much entertaining then...
...children never smile. Their dread of cold is so great that, when brought into warm rooms, they fight desperately for the spot nearest the fire. They draw their heads into their coat collars, their hands into their sleeves. There they sit silently for hours. Music and the laughter of others irritate them. Someone asks a little girl why she is so silent. She answers: "Why do you smile?" From London last week came such reports of what two years of starvation, cold and horror had done to the children of Nazi-besieged Leningrad. To some chil dren it had caused...