Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patch on your pants. I'm one newspaperman who's going to have a comfortable old age." But when he learns of the tragedy his paper has wrought, he tells his publisher what he thinks of him, stalks out of the office with a bitter laugh at himself...
...Strictly Dishonorable" has shown that its a comedy of modern American life it is quite supreme. Preston Strugess has injected into the one and only good play that he has written a most pleasing balance of humor and satire that makes one chuckle and laugh out loud alternately for three acts. He deals with a somewhat risque theme in a very restrained manner. In fact the whole play is delicately fine and thoroughly pleasant throughout...
...That's all right. There are still too few of us who laugh...
...already "liquidated" the only two dangerous Russians) and dictated his terms. When they understood his amazing proposition they scurried to sign. So would you have done. Economists may laugh at Tycoon Rand's slick scheme, but the plain man will admit it makes a good Oppenheim yarn. The Author. Edward Phillips Oppenheim, 64, tycoonish-looking himself, writes stories "because, if I left them on my brain, where they are endlessly effervescing, I would be subject to a sort of mental in digestion." He published his first story at 18, his first novel at 20. He never plots...
...poured mineral water on a lady's arm, dropped forks under the table and crawled after them with a flashlight, asking guests to move over, please. At last Ambassador Dawes arose, explained, introducing Errol, but some guests, unused to U. S. and New South Wales humor, failed to laugh. Offstage he looks unprepossessing. In his act he still wears the pair of Congress gaiters which he used in his first U. S. appearance...