Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...porch hammock is to realize that, so long as people go on saying incongruous or pompous things, this young man will never lack for oysters, for the world is his." The Arno type of humorous drawing is hard to define, easy to recognize. The pictures that make you laugh are ludicrous, often slightly mad but always obvious; the pictures that make you snicker are allusive, satirical, not always to be taken in at a glance, usually are capable of at least a double meaning. About half these pictures should make you laugh ; you may snicker at the rest. Whichever...
Commenting on the fact that he is called Russia's Dictator, Comrade Stalin exclaimed with another hearty laugh: "It is just very funny...
...residence in Cambridge, she acted with Sothern and Marlowe in Shakespearean repertoire, and subsequently appeared in the Stagers' New York revival of W.S. Gilbert's comedy, "Engaged." She has also appeared in Belasco productions in support of Frances Starr, and played for a season opposite Lionel Barrymore in "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and later took a Master's Degree at Radcliffe...
...groceries In the centre of the town. When the only place we need to know Is just as near the Sun As we can climb, in the short time Before our day is done. And you, too, Mr. William, May hold your sides with glee Neglect your work, and laugh and laugh In this country of the free. MARY P. C. STAPLES Deep Gratitude...
...undertake character sketches. Greatest of all press handlers for the Messrs. Hoover and Smith were two New York women-Mrs. William Brown Meloney of the New York Herald Tribune and Mrs. Belle Israels Moskowitz. Anecdotes (safe, amusing ones) should be frequently dropped among newspaper men. Any specially quotable or laugh-getting phrase in the candidate's speeches should be noted for reiteration Newspapers snatch at good little bits for front-page "boxes." Any cartoonable physical characteristics or appurtenances should be emphasized-as were Roosevelt's grin and spectacles, Taft's girth, Dawes's pipe. Smith...