Word: titterings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More recently many schools and colleges in the U. S. adopted the honor system. During examination hours, therefore, schoolmasters could do anything they liked. They could titter over Petronius, they could play golf. Life became easy for the masters (from magister [Latin]: master, director, superintendent) during examination hours...
Auto-conscious citizens have been kept in a titter of excitement since the introduction of Ford, model A, through the successive automobile shows, the successive price cuttings. If citizens had over- emphasized the importance of the vehicle industry in 1927, they were brusquely brought to their senses last week. They learned from Washington that the past year had been relatively ineffectual, auto- wise. The number of passenger cars sold was 2,938,868; less than 1926, less than 1925, less than 1924, less than...
...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...