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Word: laughter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write about the joys of bachelorhood, was seated at dinner next to Spinster Edith Berryman (pen name: Mary Ann Jones), with whom for two years he has carried on a feud about a tax on bachelors, suggested by Spinster Berryman. A bridal bouquet was awarded to Miss Berryman (laughter and applause), a sewing basket to Bachelor Hines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Letter Writers' Holiday | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Yellow, light green and red in combination give me the same sense as hearing the gay laughter of children at play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Color Feelings | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Montro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a 20th-century, streamlined job--this "Pinocchio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none of its genial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

LAND WITHOUT LAUGHTER-Ahmad Kama/-Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventuring | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...Land Without Laughter. Real name of Ahmad Kamal is Cimarron Hathaway, 28, redheaded, scimitar-scarred. Great-grandson of a Tatar chieftain, he spent most of his childhood on U. S. Indian reservations, where his German-born mother did tribal research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventuring | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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