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...capricious and allegedly all-wise Creator. . . . And he is being paid-not much, but something-for attending this place which is part seminary, part abattoir. . . . Every office needs at least one man who, though a competent workman, understands that existence is primarily a droll affair, with the horselaugh predominant not only to the grave, but after the will is read. For purposes of keeping up morale and teaching the cardinal truths of life, any large paper could afford to hire, at princely salary, such a man as Gene Fowler . . . or Joel Sayre, a wandering behemoth who went to Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Room Prophet | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...Strike Me Pink" -- Majestic, 44th Street W.--An unbeatable trio in Hope Williams, who lends the Park Avenue tone, Jimmy Durante with the horselaugh and omnipresent schnozzlo, and Lupe Velez with eyes and things and sighs. Smooth music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 3/30/1933 | See Source »

Other elements of the Press, not sharing the Hearstpapers' reverence for Editor Brisbane, minimized the exploit in various ways. The Chicago Tribune Press Service gave it a loud horselaugh with a string of home-brewed dispatches purporting to come from Joliet, Santa Fe, Leavenworth and other prisons. These "dispatches" said that Loeb & Leopold, Winnie Ruth Judd, Albert Bacon Fall, Terry Druggan and other more or less celebrated convicts might help the baby-hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brisbane's Coup | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

...Liberalism had turned reactionary in the War- time fever, and The New Republic lost 40% of its 48,000 circulation. After the War it faced a nation whose tempo had suddenly, nervously quickened, whose major thought tendencies, expressed in journalism, philosophy and literature, were toward the satire, horselaugh and Menckenian sneer, hardly sympathetic to the earnest, didactic, creative attitude of The New Republic. Dismayed by the scene around him, Editor Croly's faiths subtly changed; his belief in progressive movements weakened, he began to feel that in individual development lay the real future of Liberalism. With the collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of Croly | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...Reginald Carrington as a lovable old Lord who can scarcely move without veering into some of the precarious makeshift furniture, thereby causing its collaspse. Whenever the tempo lags or the substance thins, some such violent commotion as Mr. Carrington's table-toppling is almost bound to provoke a horselaugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 7, 1930 | 4/7/1930 | See Source »

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