Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall skinny sergeant a tank man, stood rocking with laughter in the art room of "Yank, The Army Weekly," the other day. He slapped his thighs and alternated between bows and quarterknee bends. "Yeah," he snorted, "The injection needles always look that big." He turned pages. He roared. "There's always one guy doin' something out of time at exercise. Rumors! That's right-always a rumor...
...change in location and season made little difference in the reception of ancient class parts. The Ivy Oration, by Joseph C. Scott, was greeted with applause and laughter from the "Classmatibus hic haec hoc anno domini c pluribus unum veritas ad infinitum hocus pocus salutem" at the beginning, to the imitation of a History I professor who declared at the end, that "the chaos to which we are now subjected is like the screechings and scratching of a great orchestra, which is in reality but tuning up to play a great triumphal march-the Overture in Africa-and the Finale...
...film. What had been witty dialogue now falls flat, what started out to be a whirlwind plot is slowed by refugees and the agonies of captive peoples. Director McCarey makes no attempt to eliminate the more sordid elements from the story, and the resulting hodge-podge swings from laughter to laments with unnerving rapidity...
...girl complimented him on the beauty of his feet. Says he: "I jumped up, my mind clouded by an odd feeling of jealousy toward myself . . . knocked [my admirer] down and trampled on her with all my might." In the same year, suffering from uncontrollable fits of laughter and bordering on insanity, he met his future wife Gala (then wife of Surrealist Poet Paul Eluard). To impress the Eluards, Dali decided to get himself up "very elaborately." He tore his best silk shirt to shreds, shaved his armpits so deep that they bled, transferred blood to other parts of his body...
...Rulka and her mother and Aunt Madzia rolled bandages for the hospitals-clean at first, then nicely laundered, then, "yellowish and frayed, some had horrible half-washed streaks on them." The cook and an unpleasant refugee named Mrs. Gruda worked and reveled together over atrocity stories, while with loud laughter the children built block cities and destroyed them. In the evenings, the Langers took heart in the speeches of their Mayor Starzynski...