Word: guffawer
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...haircuts. Then he got a job drawing animated cartoon slides as film advertisements for a Kansas City cinema palace. In his "studio" over a garage he spent hours coaxing a pair of mice out of their hole onto his drawing board. When they assumed faintly human attitudes, his guffaw of delight sent them scampering back. Then, singlehanded, with $40. he tried to make an animated cartoon cinema called Steamboat Willie. His brother lent him several hundred dollars more to photo graph it and get to Hollywood. The pic ture did not sell but it got him a studio job. Soon...
Were it not for the sincerity rampant in every line of the oath, were it not for the palpable belief that only thus may students be persuaded of the need for serious work in college, the imposition would deserve every guffaw dispatched in its ill-fated direction. Against such sincerity there is small use to argue that undergraduates as well as faculty will recite the affirmation mechanically, with the slightest suggestion of a hypocritical smirk at the faculty of such rigamarole; it would be equally futile to maintain that if a college man is not already mature enough to appreciate...
...treats the Russian revolution in a new manner for the cinema, using it as the material for blood & thunder romance in the style of Rafael Sabatini. It is a well directed and adequately authentic picture, damaged mainly by prolixity of plot and by reverberations of George Bancroft's guffaw. His laughter is of a sort to suggest that he has just heard a joke which he does not understand...
...actress. A stage success of 17 years ago, the picture has two other noteworthy performances?by Laurence Olivier, a mild spoken English actor with unusually good camera presence, and Lionel Barrymore. Barrymore, the best leerer in his family, achieves facial contortions of unparalleled eloquence; he has added a scratchy guffaw to his paraphernalia of lechery. Good shot: the scene in a cabaret in which a song sung by the performers reminds Barrymore where he first saw Elissa Landi...
...apiece from poultry fanciers. But there were other buyers of those eggs, at whose stealthy purpose the White Plains prison keeper occasionally hinted, as though he were the purveyor of a witch's stew. With Murphy dead, the master revealed his secret commerce. The revelation raised a great guffaw among those who had any sound knowledge of medicine. For, according to Warden Hill, those sly buyers broke up the eggs, put the yolk & whites in small capsules, and prescribed the encapsulated eggs as an aid to maternity...