Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delightful as it is tactless, the book sent many Canadians into gales of laughter, enraged others, who yanked copies from Toronto bookstore windows. The Toronto Star, refusing to review the book, commented: "Do you think our newspaper is printed on asbestos?" The Star's sports columnist suggested: "We could boil them in oil over a slow fire...
...worth more than anything that can happen to you. . . . We yearn for so much . . . for one hour without the din of battle, for one stretch of summer landscape that doesn't smell of conflagration and death, for one walk through a street of peace with children's laughter and clinking of glasses reaching your ear from a jolly window. Yet all this becomes threadbare and infinitesimal compared with the yearning for the great water, for water for drinking, for bathing, for nonsensical wallowing...
...taxicab through the Siegfried Line, spent many a pleasant afternoon on a terrace in Luxemburg dreaming up antics for a French flier he referred to as "Albert le Screwball." He fled before the Nazis in France, was in London during the worst bombardments. The wheeze of his laughter was never stilled whether he was jaunting in Ireland, following the British in North Africa and Ethiopia, or covering a sea battle in the Mediterranean. He decided it was time to come home when his leg was crushed after a mob of excited Egyptians in Cairo pushed him from a train during...
...rich man trying to make his last and greatest sale, that of his own country. It is a somber story of self-respect, of honor and decency being pawned to the Nazis for the price of a soft bed in a luxury hotel. It is a tale of laughter growing old and of the Judas whine of treachery taking its place. It is the record of P. G. Wodehouse, ending forty years of money-making fun with the worst joke he ever made in his life...
Inferring that the Nazis were at least going to use Wodehouse as a come-on for their .shortwave propaganda broadcasts, the British press bustled. Front-paged the London Daily Mirror: "Wodehouse . . . lived luxuriously here because Britain laughed with him, but when the laughter was out of his country's heart, Wodehouse was not ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess...