Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blurt by Secretary Steve Early helped start the conference-as they seldom start these days-with a laugh. The President announced that at 2:45 the next day he would dedicate three schools-"three at once."Quickly Steve Early corrected him: "At a quarter to three!" When the laughter subsided and routine questions were out of the way, Washington Times-Herald's Earl Godwin leaned over the President's desk, asked sonorously: "Mr. President, do you have any reason to believe that Germany and Italy are working for your defeat in this election...
Beyond either laughter or tears, and incredibly British, was a notice posted at a golf course outside London: Emergency Rule: Players may pick out of any bomb crater, dropping ball not nearer hole without penalty. Ground littered with debris may be treated as ground under repair...
Added the Star-Times in a soberer vein: "Unneutral? Of course it is unneutral, in a world where neutrality has become Hitler's jest and Holland's grave. . . . Loud will be the laughter of Göring and Goebbels . . . when they read . . . the Post-Dispatch's editorial, translated, as it will be, in the Völkulcher Beobachter. . . . Roosevelt . . . acted in an hour of danger. . . . It was not an act of war, but an act to keep war away from America, now and forever...
...wisecracking answer; had memorized it so that he would not fumble the asking. Replied the President: let the newspapermen listen to the Convention broadcast; they would hear Senator Barkley make an announcement for the President when the Convention's permanent organization was completed. He broke into loud laughter as they rushed off with the sensational news that the secret...
Italy was in. Those emotional little men, those lovers of laughter but not of war-whose forefathers were licked by Louis XII's generals in three weeks, were a mere side dish to Napoleon I, were even overwhelmed by the ignorant Ethiopians at Aduwa in 1896, were the shame of their Allies at Caporetto-shouldered their arms and reluctantly left their dark-haired weeping women...