Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bored with Boston debutantes-). What a weekend that had been! They had come down the mountain in the dark, and there had been singing around the cabin stove after supper, and later a square dance in an old barn to the squeak of a country fiddle, stamping, and the laughter of pretty girls. He thought of long bicycle rides over country roads speckled with red and yellow leaves, and the tang of wood-smoke in the wind. And then there was the sharp outline of a snowy peak against the blue winter sky, the green of pines along the Sherburne...
...hard to laugh the whole investigation off, but at a time like this such laughter rings a bit hollow. When the elected representatives of this country openly declare, as Senator Nye did, that they are "not, as yet, in favor of bringing the question of anti-Semitism into the investigation," then some sort of scepticism regarding their motives might well be expected...
Everything, during these hours, was momentous, but sometimes Joseph Stalin got off simple, heavy jokes. He said that the Nazis were too smart to put the Italians in the front line; Hitler used them for dishwashers. He laughed loudly at this one, but behind his own laughter he could hear the mechanized, Hitlerian tramp of destiny...
...When he had finished, there was a silence, and then they both began to shake with helpless laughter...
...fabulous Elsa signed a five-year contract to write a six-day-a-week syndicated column, Elsa Maxwell's Particles. Her reason: a laughter shortage in national defense. "It is a matter of morale," she says, "to be as happy as you can through...