Word: flatters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always polite. No matter how much of a hurry they are in they never forget to take their hats off to each other. This may be the kind of thing that has made critics assert that laughter is founded on a sense of superiority,* but Hot for Paris will flatter that sense only broadly, good-humoredly. Director Raoul Walsh is said to have thought up the story while he was riding in an airplane. Typical gags: "You must have a sweetport in every heart"; "coal miners" used instead of "gold diggers"; Swedish seamen interrupting Victor McLaglen as he pours...