Word: horselaughing
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Colonel Burton Oliver Lewis, second in command at the Proving Ground, tried putting his arm around Mr. Barlow's shoulder. It was a fatal gesture. Mr. Barlow, without waiting for his bomb, exploded. He shouted: "I'm on the spot. I'm going to get the horselaugh of the whole nation. I'm going. . . ." Into his car he hopped, drove fiercely away, abandoning glmite, goats, goatherds, photographers, Congressmen and Colonel Lewis...
...Flying Deuces (RKO). Laurel & Hardy in a not very funny remake of Laurel & Hardy. But the last laugh is a horselaugh: Hardy, reincarnated after an airplane crash in the form of a moustached horse that looks like him, being wept over by lonely Stan Laurel...
...Girl from Wyoming (by J. van Ostend van Antwerp; produced by John & Jerrold Krimsky) is the creaking American Music Hall's annual horselaugh, garnished with beer & pretzels. The tale of "a Harvard graduate trapped by sex in the purple sage," The Girl from Wyoming provides an uncannily false picture of the West in the days of Diamond Dick saloons, half-breed beauties with roses between their teeth, and the Pony Express...
...love is lost between other Philadelphia art authorities and Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, inventor of Argyrol, collector and self-appointed gadfly to museums. Last November Dr. Barnes broke a short truce with a bitter horselaugh at Millionaire Joseph Widener for buying, and at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art for accepting, a large, sparse Cézanne which he called inferior (TIME, Nov. 29). Lately the wealthy doctor has formed a queer alliance with the Philadelphia Artists' Union to discomfit attractive Mary Curran, State director of the Federal Art Project...
...Would they not give us the horselaugh? Of course they would...