Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First developing his ideas on meaning and symbolism in poetry. Frost kept a ripple of laughter going through the audience as he loosed salty jibes at the new Deal in the course of the preliminary discussion. During this period, and throughout the later parts of his readings, he was constantly interrupted by the almost steady flow of latecomers and early leavers...
...course of working out these difficulties Seven Sweethearts shrinks the talents of nearly everybody in it. Only Comedian S. Z. Sakall manages to squeeze out its small juice of laughter and pathos...
...Harriet's fireside. "Mr. Clay, sitting upright on the sofa, with his snuffbox ever in his hand, would discourse for many an hour in his even, soft, deliberate tone. . . . Mr. Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of laughter . . . would illuminate an evening. Mr. Calhoun, the cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and never could be extinguished, would come in sometimes." She visited Madison at his home, an old man "in his chair, with a pillow behind him; his little person wrapped...
...stars have to agree to a six-month tour with a show after its London run. Noel Coward is on a repertory tour with three of his shows, playing lead in them all: Blithe Spirit; This Happy Breed, the tale of a common man from 1919 to 1939; Present Laughter, a sophisticated comedy...
Throughout the hour-long conference, the tension had mounted. It was hot in the crowded room: sweat dripped from the correspondents' foreheads and soaked through their coats. There had been no jesting, no laughter; the President's voice had turned edgy...