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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell never knew why they didn't laugh, nor cared either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After Psychological Investigations Dr. Sears Discovers Why People Won't Laugh at His Joke | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Among the discoveries of Dr. Sears, found when he was investigating why an audience of forty assorted Harvard and Cambridge residents would not laugh at his jokes, was the fact that meek people just love to be targets for witticisms. This is, apparently, contrary to established opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After Psychological Investigations Dr. Sears Discovers Why People Won't Laugh at His Joke | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...Association of National Manufacturers, let me commend TIME in mildly ridiculing an American" type at which historians will laugh, at which most thinking Americans today indulgently smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1935 | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Last week Count Ciano emphatically could laugh last, as Excellency Mussolini and Excellency Laval negotiated their entente in frowning Palazzo Venezia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Toasted Entente | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...things that make some people laugh, often seem no laughing matter at all to others. One thing that has made thousands of people laugh is Author Thome Smith.* Not all his devotees think him continuously, screamingly funny, but their votes show that he stood high in popularity among U. S. madcaps. His latest, posthumous japery† is neither better nor worse than his past performances. Readers who found him amusing will chuckle, readers who did not will yawn, as heartily as ever over The Glorious Pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Madcap | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

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