Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program closed with the alumni and an HGC recording singing "Fair Harvard," a sentimentality somewhat clouded by a slowing down of the record and a subsequent destroying of the melody. The guests tried to continue singing, but most people eventually collapsed with laughter, and President Pusey was later heard to remark, "The New Haven radio station was no doubt jamming...
...election were not qualified to do so. Rossiter claimed that two sophomores joined the club too late to vote in the elections. Earlier in the meeting, many members laughed derisively when Benno P. Ludwig '59 praised "the principles of young Republicanism" in his speech nominating Peterson. Ludwig also aroused laughter when he asked for "leadership, not dictatorship; coordination, not subordination...
...even the proposal to send Mr. Dulles behind the Iron Curtain." From somewhere out of the back of the room a senior civil servant muttered something that sounded like "and keep him there." "Jock" Whitney broke into a grin and said chidingly, "Now, now." The whole room shook with laughter...
...sticky pathos for pathos' sake. With such facile props as a small boy, a weird Chinese lady and a blind young Scot, they work up a mild tearjerker seasoned with laughs. But they invoke no tears, and only occasionally, thanks to Shirley's skill, do they draw laughter. Their play is every bit as tedious as it is unpalatable...
...Wonder Smith and His Son, and in a reissue of Howard Pyle's saga of the German robber barons. Otto of the Silver Hand. A tall tale is found in Daniel Boone's Echo, by William 0. Steele; poetry in Katherine Love's anthology, A Little Laughter; magic in Mary Norton's Bed-Knob and Broomstick; hobbies in Royal Wills's Tree Houses. The range is being pushed farther and farther from pram to prom, from pre-reading do-it-yourselfers (with buttons and Zippers fixed to the pages) to a growing number of teen...