Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...rolled his tongue against them as he stared at the ceiling-an omen from which Washington newsmen deduce the Presidential mood as fishermen scan the sky for breaks in the weather. A blurt by Secretary Steve Early helped start the conference-as they seldom start these days-with a laugh. The President announced that at 2:45 the next day he would dedicate three schools-"three at once."Quickly Steve Early corrected him: "At a quarter to three!" When the laughter subsided and routine questions were out of the way, Washington Times-Herald's Earl Godwin leaned over...
...play like Messrs. Lindsay and Crouse's adaptation which does not pretend to dramatic intensity or profundity, the burden of success necessarily lies upon the direction and a cast able to take full advantage of the innumerable laugh-provoking situations. Oscar Serlin provides both. Bretaigne Windust has captained the cast to a rollicking march that rarely tires. He commands a company that is cut to the most exacting measures...
...Russell is unapproachable only in his special philosophical stratosphere. When the conversation moves to a mundane level, he loses his air of disconcerting coolness and begins to laugh, finger his horn-rimmed glasses and bite his pipe...
...wreckage to free a girl: they had had to use their bodies as struts to hold up the debris while tunneling. Said the King: "You have done grand work." Said George Pitman: "It's all in the day's work, Sir." Wally Capon, 54, raised a laugh by saying to the Queen: "Ever since the war started I have had my leg pulled about being an old man, but when a job like this comes along, Your Majesty, it is the old ones who can show the young ones what to do." Grimy workers coming off duty shook...
Unconsciously the German propaganda broadcasters provided the biggest laugh of the week. They frequently rehash British Air Ministry communiques for German consumption, and Air Ministry communiques sometimes end with the sentence: "Last night bombs were dropped at random." Last week the Deutschlandsender was heard telling its German listeners: "In the suburb of Random damage has been caused by our bombers...