Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reporters had small hope that the President's press conference last week would produce any important news or even pleasant laughter. In three months, Harry Truman had called in the press only six times (F.D.R. averaged two conferences a week). On most of those occasions he had been closemouthed, cautious and clipped. Besides, Senate Minority Leader Alben Barkley had already popped the major White House news item of the week, when he announced that the President would again veto the income tax cut bill if it was anything like the first...
Peals of girlish laughter had definitely replaced the monotonous buzz of crickets in a small sector of the Radcliffe Quadrangle last night. The transition even raised a smile beneath the facial foliage of a bearded octogenarian, a vesperian landmark with his dachshund on a Walker Street stroll...
...world. In France the Communist weekly, France Nouvelle, shrieked dutifully: "French independence seriously threatened by the dollar kings!" In the U.S., meanwhile, Henry Wallace and his political siblings continued to tell Americans about how wicked the British and French imperialists are. From Canada came a sharp, short snort of laughter. During its eager emanations of anti-Americana, Radio Moscow had recently quoted the Montreal Times as writing that U.S.-Canadian military ties were merely part of Canada's "final subservience to the U.S.A." It was true-the Montreal Times had indeed published suggestions as to how the city could...
...fascinating reading-or unbearably dull-depending on who says what. Its reporters either euphemize or ignore profanity (Hansard tactfully fails to hear Ernie Bevin when he says, as he often does, in debate, "By God"). They will take down cries of "Hear! Hear!" but do not record laughter, cheers or jeers unless the context of speeches requires it. Unlike the Record, it is uncluttered with Members' undelivered speeches. The editors will let an M.P. replace only such Parliamentary divots as split infinitives and wrong dates...
...Chaplin for producing it. He has replaced his beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with the bulk of the non-Latin world. He has gone light on pure slapstick and warm laughter, and has borne down on moral complexity, terror and irony with an intensity never before attempted in films. At a time when many people have regained their faith in war under certain conditions and in free enterprise under any conditions whatever, he has ventured to insist, as bitterly...