Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pembroke, reacted with hard gaiety on Sunday to a cautious question by a titled guest as to whether the King is resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson. "Everyone knows more than we do," replied the Duchess of York, "we know nothing. Nothing!" Her Royal Highness followed this with a brittle laugh.* To Edinburgh this week traveled the Duke of York to be installed as Grand Master Mason of Scotland...
...great London houses, Washington scandals, political intrigues, trips to Spain, Italy, Switzerland. She was less impressed than John Adams' grandson by many of the famed figures they met. Adams, for instance, described the English poet Richard Monckton Milnes as a gifted eccentric "with a Falstaffian mask and laugh of Silenus." But Clover drew an unforgettable sketch: "As for Milnes, he shows little of the ideal poet. He is old and stout, very scrubbily dressed, his teeth vanish down his throat when he giggles, which is very often, and then, by a most interesting tour de force, he reinstates them...
...idea that a Boston audience, or for that matter any audience, sits on its hands, is pure bunk. Once the people pay the price of admission, you've won them over. . . That's reasonable, isn't it? They paid to have a laugh, now all you have to do is give them...
...Rapped on the galvanized iron side of an unemployed workers' school hut and drew a laugh by asking the men with the mock roar of an Army sergeant, "ANY COMPLAINTS...
Born in New York, Bert Lahr also, started his career in a "kid act", at the age of 16. He graduated to burlesque and vaudeville, and now rates tops in the art of making people laugh. He has acted in several movies, his last feature completed about five years ago. He likes Hollywood, but has no special interest there. His ambition, now, is to retire soon, and watch things whizz by from the sidelines...