Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Canada (like Mary Pickford and Norma Shearer), Lelia Koerber (Marie Dressier) grew up in Cobourg, Ontario where her father was a music teacher. At five she performed as Cupid in a church pageant, made her audience laugh by falling off a pedestal. At 14, under her stage name (borrowed from an aunt) she joined an itinerant stock opera troupe, finally got a chance to understudy Katisha in The Mikado for $8 a week. Eight years later, playing in the same theatre, she was getting $800 a week...
...urchins skating, and when the plain of the river is windy in March, and the white birches look naked in the light of the riding moon, the Vagabond walks and thinks in inscrutable things. He may even break into a run if the night is cool and laugh when the wind snatches his hair and makes his throat...
Amid the popping of firecrackers, the sloshing of wet towels and the laugh of horseplaying members the New Jersey legislature adjourned one dawn last week after one of the longest sessions on record...
...modern young bloods and contrasting it with the traditional wisdom and courtesy of the old generation, Author Macdonell's good nature breaks down into invective or falters into sentimentality. But most of the time he is content to point a blunt and sudden finger, raise a hearty laugh...
...facile after-dinner speaker, Governor Black wisecracks with a straight face, never repeats himself, can always get a laugh with some new anecdote about how "Gussie" (Mrs. Black) holds him down...