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Word: laugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberty has increased much more rapidly than before." Liberty announced a $1,000 per week prize for the best answers to this question: "Are you Wet or Dry?" And last week Life, exhibiting some of the initiative by which for 40 years it has made citizens not only laugh but think, inaugurated a crusade for consummate shrewdness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Circulation by Alcohol | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner's words of praise. Says Mencken: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing, but that time I did not laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God Wills It! | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

There are 18 scenes, between each of which Hall Johnson's magnificent Negro choir intones a spiritual. The all-Negro cast perform with a combination of spontaneity, vigor, and accomplished artistry which exemplifies the race at its dramatic best. You will laugh at the ebony, tinsel-winged Angel Gabriel and at many of his heavenly associates. Other things may well make you cry. In any event you will be overcome by a reverence which can only be construed as a tribute to fine art, if, indeed, it is not a manifestation of more inscrutable religious impulses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 10, 1930 | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...they entered upon a beer garden set, a chorus of 200 men and women about the tables rose to greet them with a tremendous song With Will Hays, Mary Pickford Fairbanks and Jack Warner, they took seats on a dais to watch the "shooting" of several scenes. Mrs. Coolidge laughed as Louise Fazenda made love to Bert Roach across a beer table. Mr. Coolidge did not laugh. The visitors were then shown a "playback" of the scenes just taken in a nearby projection room. Citizen Coolidge's comment: "That's fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plain Tourists | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...from looking like the Park Central. It is an exciting and fairly credible melodrama distinguished by Powell's fine performance. Best shot: Gambler Powell coming out of the hotel where he has been shot, bent over, staggering, with his hand pressed to his groin, while the hotel employes laugh at him as just another drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 17, 1930 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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