Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serious Matters? Eve Garrette Grady wrote that she learned not to laugh when clothes-hungry Russians asked her on the street for how much she would sell, then and there, her panama hat, her white linen frock, even her silk stockings...
...managed not to laugh when five Soviet puttiers took all day to putty her three windows...
...Sparrows? Not chronicled by Eve Garrette Grady, for it came only last week, was Russia's laugh of the year?a Gargantuan belly-quake which rocked the Union and was not suppressed by Soviet censors...
...want to but because they have nothing else to do. But far be it from me to advocate taking away from them this last escape mechanism. Anyway, acting is lots of fun. When the show is good, you are amused with the audience; when it is bad and they laugh anyway, you can be amused at them, and if nobody laughs, the show will not last long enough to be boring...
...trifle in the life of this hardy Alpinist. But the Vagabond may not go so far afield, and in the latter case a tremendous decision will confront him. Will he go to the Tremont Temple to have his soul saved by Billy Sunday, or to the Tremont Theatre and laugh with and at Charlie Chaplin. Both propositions sound almost equally alluring; the decision is fraught with moment. His soul or his sense of humor, which shall it be? He must decide,--Ah, quick Watson, the skis...