Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irwin's knowledge of antique conditions. The work is not a scholarly one. Anachronism is a word which means very little in the author's vocabulary. On the other hand a sense of the ridiculous, a knowledge of the comparative value of the wholesome chuckle and the belly laugh is evident on every page...
...sincere critic cannot but place this book in the second line of modern fiction. Mr. Irwin is not moved by the literary trends of the day. He will not Quixote-like, laugh the detective story out of existence. In fact, it is not quite fair to state that as the purpose of his satire, though such a purpose would not be without its enhancing qualities. As entertainment, however, either for the educated Senior who has completed his Divisional or the distracted Freshman madly seeking diversion between Finals, Mr. Irwin's bag of tricks holds forth a satisfying invitation...
...disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk with vigor, paused to laugh sharply, taking a shrewd thrust at his critics, then continued, making his points vigorously. He was giving newshawks better copy than he had given them in months, but the head of more than one newshawk, bending over his note pad, shook slowly from side to side while its owner murmured...
...movie shows which constitute frequent White House entertainment. It began with a newsreel. Suddenly a tousled man flashed on the screen. "The trouble with the people in Washington is that they have had common sense educated out of them," he cried. Senator Russell and Governor Winship began to laugh. Franklin Roosevelt let out a hearty roar: that Georgia's recalcitrant Governor Talmadge should tear the New Deal to shreds in the White House itself...
Where they laugh with glee...