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Word: funniest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing but the Truth (Paramount). Mildly amusing comedy, centering on Richard Dix's efforts to win a bet by telling the truth for 24 hours, is brought to life by chubby Helen Kane. Funniest shot: Miss Kane singing "Do, Do Something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...that time his Wood was rather Italian. Playwright Leonard Ide uses the episodic development with flashbacks lately popularized by Novelists Wilder & Bromfield. The second episode, with Ralph J. Locke as a French husband whose adjustment to his wife's infidelity shows skilled amorous economics, is the funniest. Otherwise the froth refuses to bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

FRANK CRUMIT, soulful-songster of comic balads has produced "Bride's Lament" and "Jack is Every Inch a Sailor". The funniest thing about them is that when written, they weren't supposed to be funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

...MUSICAL Funniest - Funniest-RAIN OR SHINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...bore," said the man from Arkansas, "but it has its compensations. I think the funniest of my experiences concerns a chap at mid-years last year. The question read: 'Using none of the information gleaned on your selected poet during the reading period, selection one whose life-time comes between the one not selected in question I (2) (b) (1), and the preceding poet, tell in detail his influence on the poet still undiscussed...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 2/11/1928 | See Source »

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