Word: guffawer
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...talk gets snagged in the bony vocalizing of the Andrews Sisters, in the infantile attempts of Crooner Powell to get away from it all, in thousands of dollars worth of Universal props. Despite these expensive handicaps, sour-pussed Bud Abbott and outsized Lou Costello manage to resurrect many a guffaw for low-comedy devotees...
...business. Out of a welter of stock theatrical characters, only Rains's David Belasco and a blustering boardinghouse keeper played by Helen Westley emerge entertainingly. Claude Rains draws a penetrating bead on the egotistical Broadway impresario. Helen Westley's corned-beef-&-cabbage exterior provides many a welcome guffaw...
Professor Elliott's mouth is not mealy with the idealistic mush which can be refuted by a scornful guffaw and reference to the debacle that was the last U. S. attempt to reform European power politics. Because he wants to go to war with a hard-headed conviction that it is to our own materialistic interest to do so -- not starry-eyed and reciting poetry -- Professor Elliott's case for intervention is extremely dangerous. We are making the mistake made by the British at Munich, he says, and if we allow the force to disorder a victory in Europe...
...Russellites do not appeal. We hope that Dr. Russell stays in California. And we hope that years from now, when the significance of Russell's teachings in mathematics are recognized, when the enormity of his work becomes appreciated by the popular mind, that the public will utter a hearty guffaw at the people of the untouchably pure city of New York for resenting the "insult" of having Bertrand Russell teach in their institutions. From the Clark University "Secret...
...thunder. Young Editor Hadden, black-haired, bushy-browed and so nervous that he never sat still, always scowled at copy, generally from beneath a green eyeshade. Vexed by a stupid blunder* he would growl out loud, sometimes stamp his feet. Pleased by an apt phrase, he would vent a guffaw that apprised TIME'S writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME'S staff. Impatient of slow waiters, he disrupted many a staid...