Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After this outburst, no more until Thursday, when up rose the Senate's ancient Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina. Baggy-faced, walrussy Cotton Ed, 79, went farthest South yet in criticism of Franklin Roosevelt, bitter sneers that were heard with laughter, nods, and in warm silence...
...roses have jaded away.-There's an end to your laughter, your tears and your smiles...
...Thurber's simpler secrets is the dismaying fact that the maddest laughter is often provoked by no laughing matter. Thus, one twin-bedded, book-reading wife asks of her mate, in the other bed: "What the hell ever happened to the old-fashioned love story?" Again, five assorted Thurber dogs group themselves on a grassy bank to watch a family of human beings pass: "There go the most intelligent of all animals." One of Thurber's masterpieces carries no caption at all. A simple drawing which out-surrealizes a whole school of artists, it shows a lone...
...nothing quite like it on the U.S. air. Some 10,000,000 steady listeners send in an average 10,000 jokes (90% of them unusable) a week. Four or five are chosen and told on the program by red-haired Peter Donald, actor and dialectitian. The decibels of laughter from the studio audience are registered on a "laughmeter." After each joke the Senator and his colleagues tell one on the same subject (matrimony, money, courtship, etc.), try to outmeter the contestant. If he is not outmetered, he stands to win from...
...Britain this summer, traveling faster than even whirlwind Hope himself, then flew ahead of him to North Africa and Sicily, growing larger as it went. Like most legends, it represents measurable qualities in a kind of mystical blend. Hope was funny, treating hordes of soldiers to roars of laughter. He was friendly-ate with servicemen, drank with them, read their doggerel, listened to their songs. He was indefatigable, running himself ragged with five, six, seven shows a day. He was figurative-the straight link with home, the radio voice that for years had filled the living room and that...