Word: haha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western Stars, by Zane Grey, gives Mr. Noah Beery an opportunity to express, by flexing his facial muscles, lust, anger, confidence, contempt for his enemies as one Brand, who always gives his victims the choice between paying him $10,000 down or taking the walk of death, haha. He has designs upon a girl. Her true love, a surefooted, sound-toothed Benedict bowls Brand over...
...only when he is too evidently endeavoring to strike the tragic note that he falls a little--or even approaches absurdity. Since his first novel, Mr. Fitzgerald has joined the ranks of the "HaHa" school of ironists. He has made every effort, sometimes it seems through a natural perversity, to mock every one of the aspirations of his characters. Gloria desires above all to be thought clean and in the end she becomes unclean. The writer, Richard Carmel, does not intend to prostitute his art and finally he takes to writing best-sellers. Compared to the Fates of Mr. Fitzgerald...