Word: mirthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes. On February 13 his performance was superb. He carried up from the floor terrific hay makers, in the use of which he has always been adept, and interspersed these with quick, deadly rabbit-punches-those novel ironic sallies which are extraordinarily effective politically because they provoke mirth. This style of debate Lincoln knew well; Hoover seems to be learning...
...edition in which Writer Brown was reported as having been arrested by order of the State Department and sent to jail for 30 days on bread & water. One copy was handed to the Iranian Legation, the other taken around by Constantine Brown to the State Department from which Homeric mirth soon resounded. Waggish Editor Noyes of the Star pushed matters one notch farther by having someone call up Brown and tell him excitedly that by mistake the special Iran edition was being run off as the regular edition, a hoax on Brown which evoked even more mirth. An Englishwoman...
Resumed at once was the impenetrable mask of words behind which John Buchan lives. Tendered a congratulatory dinner in London by 600 Canadians and the Dominion High Commissioner, he flattered them directly for half an hour, then provoked them to pleased mirth by this witty hyperbole: "In one sense Canada is Britain's senior. Constitutionally, all the 'autonomous units' of the Empire are to-day equal sovereign States under one king. They are 'Dominions' and of these Dominions, Canada is the oldest and Britain the youngest...
...implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek. Banging down his gavel President Göring boomed: "No Jew can insult Germany...
...with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...