Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been informed, strictly confidentially," he said, "that Sweden is occupied by German troops since yesterday." Newsmen gulped, departed, began telephoning frantically for details. When they were gone, Herr Schmidt roared with laughter. It had all been a joke, an assurance, of course, that the invasion talk was ludicrous. It was all very funny...
Hungary. Drifting past the villages near Budapest, Hitler might mistake the laughter of gaily dressed women beating clothes along the banks for a sign that all was well in Hungary. But he could hardly fail to feel the tense atmosphere pervading the old brownstone Government buildings overlooking the Danube. Small, impeccable Nicholas Kallay, who last week became Premier after the attempted suicide of Dr. Laszlo Bardossy, would explain: though Hungary and Rumania are allies against Russia, they are, in effect, fighting each other. Both countries know that the one which helps Germany the most will be rewarded with Transylvania. While...
...combat, which Thurber wrote all the way into a Broadway hit (with Co-Author Elliott Nugent) two years ago, is the most refreshing comic material Hollywood has encountered in a long time. The resulting cinema, though overlong and talky, is a delightful comedy charged with impish innuendo and raw laughter...
...fool of modern millionaires. . . . But she came into my life and filled it with laughter...
...depicted the revolting conditions then prevalent throughout the South and honestly portrayed the bestiality that such a way of life produces in human beings. It is a sad commentary on the present production that these conditions--still all too common today--should now produce only titters of smutty laughter...