Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just for good clean fun and loud laughter, and that neither money nor sex ever appealed to her. After a half-hour chat with Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis murmured to Elsa what she took to be "a passing grade" in emotional development: "A healthy woman who will never suffer from neuroses...
...says Grady Wilson. "I'll keep him humble.'' He needles Billy mercilessly, and practical jokes are standard operating procedure. One team member, noting that the usually hatless Graham had bought himself a new hat in Dallas, filled it with shaving cream and rocked with laughter when Billy put it on. Billy gives as good as he gets. On the ship to London, he emptied Grady's seasickness capsules and filled them with mustard...
Last year, brimming with cheerful enthusiasm, Palmer thought up a project that he hoped would bring laughter and joy to such people. He called it Discojos Mexicanos, from discos (records) and ojos (eyes). Through it, he wanted to record songs and stories on twelve-inch long-playing records that would be distributed free to Mexico's sightless...
...were as silent about their work as he. When the Fermis moved to Chicago, all that she knew was that he worked at a "metallurgical laboratory" (where no metallurgists worked). She asked no questions. She brought up her children, kept her overworked husband comfortable, laughed at him affectionately when laughter was in order (once he buried a "treasure" of currency in a coal bin). But she felt the excitement around her grow and the mystery deepen...
...earthly lines) was her hashish fudge ("which anyone could whip up on a rainy day").* Fudgemaker Toklas' impassioned reaction: "This is the food of Paradise. It might provide entertaining refreshment for a Ladies' Bridge Club or a chapter meeting of the D.A.R. . . . Euphoria and brilliant storms of laughter; ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes are to be complacently expected. Almost anything Saint Theresa did, you can do better...