Word: tittered
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...description "Ballyhoo," "The Shannons of Broadway," "Burlesque," "The Wild Man of Borneo," "The Barker," and "Broadway" have been the most notable, the last-named two even leaving the secure delights of a Manhattan audience to brave with confident melodrama what is now known throughout the profession as the Boston titter...
...dialectic of laughter, from boor to baronet, is thus: shout, guffaw, laugh, chuckle, smile. Inferior forms of laughter would seem to be the titter, the giggle, the cackle, the roar, the snigger...
...fifth, being a philosophere,-a man who has some clarity of vision does not worry. He is not dumb. Because he fails to join in the titter which floods its liquid way about the platform of learning, the Parnassus of dulness, never believe him uneducated in humor. Rather he is too well educated in humor. Four out of five get it because they lack one of two things, good taste-or good grades...
...must to all judges, the temptation to utter from the bench what pass for witticisms has come at last to the Right Honorable Sir Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England. . . . Recently (TIME, April 25) Lord Chief Justice Hewart caused the world to titter with him by awarding "two and six" to a husband who claimed damages for the loss of his wife. Last week, Baron Hewart set out to better this quip. Said he to an attorney in open court: "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer really desires an additional source of revenue, he might consider...
...have put poison in the kitchen to prove it.'" All this was a very good joke. It meant that 95% of the U. S. citizens who heard about the King's speech at all got a totally false impression-and, perhaps, a good laugh, a titter or a heehaw...