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Word: laughter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Called Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, the man responsible for the stiff wartime British income tax, my "heavyhanded friend and colleague." [Laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good-Will Tour | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Washington all was mellow and mild. Mr. Roosevelt, in a good after-dinner speech, told two Joe Miller gags, drew well-fed laughter and applause. Most significant words of the evening came from Postmaster General James A. Farley, who began his brief speech: "Fellow candidates-." Happily home to the White House went Mr. Roosevelt. As in Old Hickory's famed battle, peace officially reigned,* but the shot had been fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Young Hickory | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...relief in a joke, adapted from an article by Foch. Jerphanion asks Fabre what he thinks will happen that winter. Fabre clenches his fist. "This," he says, "that when the time comes, we shall charge the foe and let cold steel decide." Then they go off into gales of laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vols. XV & XVI | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Lyric Laughter, Guiterman occasionally takes his own pleasures and predicaments seriously, tries to write about them in fitting words. A solemn dingdong is the result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lightness & Light | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...provoker of unselfish laughter, On Pilgrimage is a good book and a national possession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lightness & Light | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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