"What about the Duke of Edinburgh award at school?" Derisive laughter.
While Hoskins's testimony started off in a light vein — with a recounting of how she asked Bonds to a Sadie Hawkins dance in high school, eliciting laughter from people in the courtroom, including Bonds — it grew heavier as she went on.
New schools with improved facilities As children gather outside the school, excited laughter swells.
His words traveled with the speed of a rumor across Madras, also known as Chennai, through homes and schools, evoking laughter and applause, and delivering a bleak reminder to young boys that their lives depended on passing the J.E.E.
At the tougher schools, this prompted laughter, the attitude of "How stupid can you be?" Yet at I.C.E, a junior high on East 15th Street, the audience thought the song was sad.
Throughout his adult life, Charlie contributed a unique blend of fiscal conservativism, social justice and laughter to school and civic boards.
It does look a bit trad in some ways: there are old fashioned doublet-and-hose costumes (codpieces and all), lots of roistering laughter, stage school sword-fighting and some very literal line readings.
The audience burst into laughter, but school faculty -- including his mother, a math teacher -- didn't think the stunt was all that funny, particularly because they had discouraged students from acting out during the ceremony.
A montage of photos of grinning kids and hectic selfies is projected on to a screen as Tina Turner's The Best blares out across the school hall to whoops and laughter.
You cringe and think twice, before your colleague smirks then elbows you in the ribs… The joys and laughter of a school prom are plenty, but the celebration is ultimately determined by the character of the students and the conditions in which the event is set.
