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Word: laughter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...composer's language. Ex-Prima Donna Florence Easton pleaded for translation into the audience's tongue. Metropolitan Stars John Brownlee and John Carter sang parts of Rossini's good-humored The Barber of Seville, first in Italian (hushed attention), then in English (ripples of laughter). The rather frightening vote: 460-451 in favor of opera -in -the -original, a hair-splitting 50.5% for continuing the Met's traditional ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera: Si or No | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

What we say tonight has to do with blood and with bone and with anger, and also with a big job in the making. Laughter can wait. Soft music can have the evening off. No one is invited to sit down and take it easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: This Is War! | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...trial balloons and grotesque distortions continued to spew from the world's radios last week. Most of it was Axis concoctions; some of it was Allied counter-propaganda. Behind the radio barrage fell a blizzard of newspaper squibs, handbills, pamphlets, posters. In free countries men speculated aloud with laughter and curses; in Europe they whispered behind their hands in dim cafes and shuttered homes. It was a big week in the battle of babble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Battle of Babble | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Although the cartoon does not make the new short-form blank crystal clear, it gets its propaganda across with the anesthetic blessing of laughter and great good humor. As cinema, The New Spirit is a most effective job. It has a brand-new patriotic melody, The Yankee Doodle Spirit (composed in one day by Oliver Wallace, who did the Dumbo tunes), which is a humdinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

From flowered arbors came soft laughter and then the swirl and rustle of silk and satin as Brazilian debutantes swayed to the congas and rumbas of a red-coated samba band. Mothers and grandmothers danced, too. Ruiz Guiñazú's strict Argentine social code frowns on such informality. But he watched. Occasionally he tapped his foot, and smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Growth of an Ideal | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

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