Word: titters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...When the Queen Bee moves forward, the workers back away in a circle. Doubtless the Queen Bee blushes and the workers titter; but doubtless also both sides enjoy it and wax in virtue...
...Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield of Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Klotz of Chicago, Mrs G. H. Stetson of Philadelphia. Suddenly, one of their number pointed to a name, emitted a snicker. Others, following his shaking finger, perceived the joke, began to titter, to cackle. Soon a hysteria of amusement possessed the group; they laid hands upon one another, crowing; they pressed their sides, their eyes watered freely, they stamped upon the ground; some, more abandoned, slipped limply down and rolled, helpless, among the feet of those left standing. Oshkosh! They had seen...
...Mapes, of Harvard University and Easthampton, L. I. Recalling how those Greenwich hills had seen him larrupped by Dexter Cummings in the Intercollegiate Final (TIME, July 7) Taft larrupped Mapes. Women. The long tiled porch of Shenecossett Country Club, at New London, Conn., was all a-titter and aflutter with 175 women, flocked thither for one of the season's larger invitation tournaments. Sober and serious, young Glenna Collett...