Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathered itself into a cocoon. "No parades and no tablespoons today. Worlds revolve, nations change hands, but I just stand here, consciously dead. I crawled from loins too old with life. I am a creature of specialization, a power paddle that keeps the wheel going. I look knowledgeable; I laugh at the right jokes; I voice the proper introspective comments about the latest Book-of-the-Month Club classic. I am a vegetable...
...sure," he said with a short laugh. "Thanks." The bell was ringing vigorously again...
Fernandel the Dressmaker, if ineptly titled, is a completely winning and carefree entertainment, proving that if the French can't run a country, they can at least have a very good laugh...
...being the center of a crowded, shoulder-packed stare. He was short, squat, had on a brown, well-cut suit, two Red orders on the handkerchief pocket, and he held a glass of what appeared to be grapefruit juice. Now and then he would whisper conspiratorially to Bulganin or laugh over his shoulder to Mikoyan or talk with proper gravity to the beaming Egyptian War Minister. I elbowed my way in like a diplomat and began working with two cameras strung around my neck. Good-humoredly ignoring the listening, watching press, he seemed calm and in good temper...
...right place for a laugh, as Author Kerr sees it, is anywhere, even the index. She has concocted a mock-erudite one with such items as: "Fifth, Beethoven's" and "Idiot, tale told by a." The proper cross references for Please Don't Eat the Daisies might be "Rye Krisp, thinner than," but, at the same time, "Monkeys, more fun than a barrel...