Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the old grandfather clock in the East Room chimed midnight, the orchestra played The Anniversary Waltz. The President bowed to Mamie, caught her around the waist and swung her expertly around the polished floor for a few turns before they both gave up in laughter and embarrassment. Afterwards, Ike recalled that it was the first time he and Mamie had danced together since...
...comfortably large crowds. His message: "Europe can survive only if we unite . . . Soviets seek to dominate us. They try to coax us with trade. Well, an American Congressman has suggested that anyone who wants to go to Russia and promises not to return should be given a free ticket [laughter]. Russia wants our resources and industries. She won't give up until she realizes that Europe is unified and strong force is facing her. Only then can one talk to her . . . Russia will never negotiate with the West until it is united . . . has power. Therefore we must create this...
...rage, Communist Jacques Duclos cried: "That's unconstitutional!" Non-Communists roared with laughter. When asked in the lobby if his party would still vote for Mendès, Duclos shrugged: "Yes, one is not always free to do as he likes." At 2 a.m. the voice of the Assembly President droned out: "419 for, 47 against. Monsieur Mendès-France is invested...
...shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found his lamb folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting his turn. Poor Hecht fled "this hellish sight"-but not without recalling appropriate words of Swinburne: 0 lips full of lust and of laughter, Curled snakes that are fed from my breast...
...Madame Tellier blends a Rabelaisian humor with an almost feminine delicacy of touch. Madame Tellier's house is a brothel in a small Norman city, and Director Max Ophuls' camera peeks through doors and latticed windows at the girls and their guests, islands of light and laughter in the tomblike silence of the town. Then one night the house is closed tight, and its baffled habitues turn away from the door to wander unhappily in the streets...