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Word: funniest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just about the funniest thing in the whole story was the beginning, which quoted in double column italics the jingle about the place where the "Lowells spoke only to Cabots, and Cabots spoke only to God," Except in the Boston Herald, that ditty is always used about the city of Boston...

Author: By Robert S. Landau, | Title: Passing the Buck | 7/13/1943 | See Source »

...shell-screech and Kleiglight of Paramount's Chinese war. They help the Chinese, they love, and he dies. In depicting these events, several Paramount writers have had their characters speak out in such terms as: "Women just know things like that" (intuition); "It's the funniest feeling-I wish I could tell you what it's like" (love); "I am afraid. But it's a woman's fear" (fear); "He was a great guy" (death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Education for Death is Walt Disney's distillation of Ziemer's survey to a nine-minute cartoon-a sort of Pinocchio in reverse. Little Hans is educated into a heiling, marching puppet, at last becomes a wooden cross marker in a vast military cemetery. Funniest bit: a Nazified fairy tale, in which the handsome, armored Prince (Hitler) wakes the rotund, snoozing Princess (Germany) with a kiss, lugs her away on a white horse to a boozy version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Most pointed bit: little Hans is punished for sympathizing with a fabled rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nazis on Celluloid | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...three stars (Charles Laughton, Brian Donlevy, Robert Taylor) who attempt to impersonate naval officers in the picture, Mr. Laughton, as an irascible old rear admiral, is the loudest and funniest. His climactic line comes when he is handed a signaled message from the destroyer just after the battle. He pauses before reading it to declaim to his fellow officers on the bridge of his flagship: "This message . . . will probably be as famous in the American Navy as Perry's 'We have met the enemy and they are ours.' . . ." The message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

Life Begins at 8:30 (20th Century-Fox) combines the talents of one of Hollywood's funniest script writers, Nunnally Johnson, and one of Broadway's funniest actors, Monty Woolley. Unfortunately it also is based on one of last season's dullest Broadway plays, Yesterday's Magic. The result is not worthy of Johnson & Woolley, but they contrive to make the film fairly entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

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