Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Picayune. The reporters rested momentarily. Up popped the New York Herald Tribune's able Washington bureau chief, Bert Andrews, with the obvious question: "Does all that add up to a fourth-term declaration?" When the laughter died down the President replied (authorizing only this much of his remarks for direct quotation...
Tongue in cheek, the President asked his press conference: Had anything happened at home while he was away? The answer was a roar of laughter...
...lustful crowd, and had their womenfolk outraged, would sit down and say, 'Let the law take its course'? Let the law take its course? No. . . . There is no lynching in my section of the country. We would lynch some white people if they would go down there [laughter]-and I think I would join in the lynching-but so far as the Negro is concerned, there are no lynchings...
...State Department looked unhappy. Secretary Hull was not quoted. Reporters who knew the Department's hostility to such alignments in Europe roared with laughter when a spokesman intoned: "It [the Treaty] is not to be understood to be in conflict with the general framework of worldwide security...
...literature in themselves. Among the most readable postwar books: Make This the Last War (Michael Straight, $3); Let the People Know (Norman Angell, $2.50); U.S. Foreign Policy: Shield of the Republic (Walter Lippmann, $1.50); Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (Harold J. Laski, $3.50); Between Tears and Laughter (Lin Yutang...