Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant palaver. The Billiken-god of a generation that read his Smart Set like so many monthly revelations, he emancipated many a corn-fed adolescent. Mencken was an iconoclastic prophet but not an indignant one. "As an American," he said once, "I naturally spend most of my time laugh-ing." And his brilliance, like that of his fellow-iconoclast, Bernard Shaw, has not always done him justice. Some of his trumpetings have merely deafened the ears they assaulted, some of his more winning piccolo-and-bassoon effects have roused more laughter than thought. Since retiring from the editorship...
...Christ, I'm glad to see you!" Dr. Robertson told his rescuers. Then, they all began to laugh...
When homespun Kentucky Poet Jesse Stuart sat down and wrote a big stack of "sonnets ' (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow -TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), a few critics sat up, called him a modern Bobbie Burns. Others just laughed at his unconscious, bull-tongued humor. Last week Poet Stuart made the scoffers scratch their heads over a book of stones that were partly funny, partly serious, in the main tantalizingly good. These tales of Kentucky farmers were written in racy Kentucky dialect, with a wild-eyed, straightforward outrageousness that reminded readers more than once of Erskine Caldwell, at times...
...romantic but thoroughly unconvincing plot deals principally with the efforts of young Donald to keep his scatterbrained uncle, ably portrayed by Hugh Herbert, from the toils of schemers throughout the rather long picture. Herbert, with his asinine laugh and waving hands, manages to get tangled up with Joan Blondell, chocolate dipper in one of the Ames' factories, and wishes to make her his adopted daughter. Moonfaced Jack Oakie steps in and further complicates the plot until the doughty Donald whips him soundly in a knock-em-down-and-drag-em-out battle which is conducted off-stage to the tune...
...still sees through the eyes of youth. . . . Time has not dulled his sense of news. He wants to make people laugh, cry, to stir them with his own eagerness for news and his passion for the greatness of America."-Older...