Crossword-Solution: RIRE 4 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Beaumarchais, whose penetrating wit left few subjects untouched, makes his Figaro put the subject aside with "Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'etre oblige d'en pleurer." The author of this little volume pretends to settle no disputes, aims at inaugurating no reforms.

They have a rich laugh, though it is not the _gros rire_ of the Gaul tossing _gros sel_, nor the polished Frenchman's mentally digestive laugh.

The levity, the mockery, the infidelity, the ugliness, lay as plain as a map before her; it was a world of gross practical jokes, a world _pour rire_; but she cried about it all the same.

Quarante mille hommes massacrés et l’armée de nos alliés détruite, et vous trouvez là le mot pour rire,” * he said, as if strengthening his views by this French sentence.

Headings six inches tall; correspondences from places one never heard of; telegrams from Europe about Sarah Bernhardt; little paragraphs about nothing at all; the _menu_ of the neighbour’s dinner; articles on the European situation _à pouffer de rire_; all the _tripotage_ of local politics.