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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Wauchula was the place where we played musical comedy And no one laughed. The director went out and said "What's the matter? Don't you like it? Why don't you laugh? Why don't you clap?" An old lady said "We'd like to laugh but we're afraid to interrupt the living actors It don't seem polite. We'd like to clap, but we don't know when. We don't at the pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Flanagan's Drama | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...faced Italian High Command tried again to laugh off continued Greek advances. The enemy, it was said, was merely capitalizing on a "strategic retreat" by an expeditionary force that had had the bad luck to run into dirty weather. To prove that everything was going "according to prearranged plan," General Ubaldo Soddu, who was rushed out last month to replace Commanding General Sebastiano Visconti Prasca, was upped last week from corps commander to Army commander and confirmed in his post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BALKAN THEATRE: Children of Socrates | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Dean's office, however, refused to sanction the plan, which Rose called "a national laugh," as too risque and not befitting a Harvard social affair. With their feature attraction annulled, the Dance Committee is attempting to engage some celebrity for the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN CLAMPS DOWN ON BILLY ROSE'S BEVY OF BEAUTIES | 12/4/1940 | See Source »

...Yankees make me laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...strike a strom trooper. Not once did he exhort his parishioners to do so. He is the "turn-the-other-cheek" type of Christian. Yet Jimmy Roosevelt ('37) tries to transmute this inspiring figure into a little tin Christ. If it weren't so ominous, we could afford to laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/29/1940 | See Source »

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