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Word: laugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sing them silent, dance them still and laugh them into an open shame!'' cries The Dreamer. And the Old Woman scorns the impotent Bishop's sister in words that might have come from James Joyce : "Salaam, mem pukka memsahib. en' pardon her, en' pardon me, en' pardon us all for getting in the way of thy greatness; en' grant us grace to have faith in thy dignity en' importance, per benedicte pax hugger muggery ora pro puggery rigmarolum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 5, 1934 | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...like MacDonald and Chevalier, and costs $1,600,000 is likely to suffer from a sense of selfimportance. In The Merry Widow these assets are adroitly subordinated to Director Lubitsch's ability to improve a story by telling it as if he did not mean it. The best laugh in the picture comes from an old newspaper in which Marshovia's King, preparing to abdicate, wraps up his crown. Happiness Ahead (Warner). When Warner Brothers announced last summer that they had discovered an ingenue who would be "one of the five biggest stars of the screen within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 22, 1934 | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...keen-eyed Reader Weigle enjoy her well-deserved laugh on TIME.-ED. Ann Arbor for Lansing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: General in Control | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...advocates of devaluation would lead the franc to zero. They would ruin all France and finally ruin that famous French woolen stocking that people abroad sometimes laugh at because they are envious of it. Perhaps someone will say to me that the currency, once devalued, can be restored again. That is impossible when it no longer has any value. You cannot bring the dead back to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Last Card | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...rules for Freshmen. The beginner should not wear his hat in the Yard "except it rains, halls, or snows, or be on horseback or have both hands full." Furthermore, he must pull his hat off when passing his tutor, and he could not be saucy to his Seniors, laugh in his Seniors' face, loittor when sent on errands, and after some 18 or 20 more of such instructions, he is warned that he shall be severely punished if he should break any of these items...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Archives Reveal Strange Facts About Days When Freshmen "Could Not be Saucy" | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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