Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certainly he would like to laugh. He realizes that the Evening Post's dramatic critic is very amusing, but, in his Victorian way, he is not amused. How can he be happy spiritually when his physical needs are so great? How can he laugh when his back aches or his feet complain...
...mills resound with the melodious hum of whirling saws, and when the flockmaster and the cattle man, who tend their flocks and herds beneath the wintry stars and scorching summer sun, and when the tiller of the soil, who tickles the earth with the plow that she may laugh forth her golden harvest, are all assured that the rewards of their prudence and honest toil shall not be filched from them...
...will perhaps never think of Mercer County, N. J. except as the place where a series of rocket-machines once fictionally landed, loosing battalions of huge extra-terrestrial monsters. For those interested in 1) owning a copy of the celebrated script (with indicated sound effects); 2) enjoying a learned laugh over the things it made people do; 3) studying U. S. behavior when a panic is on, The Invasion from Mars,* provides a lively, sympathetic anatomizing of the Wells-Welles ruckus by Psychologist Hadley Cantril and a special staff of Princeton's Radio Research Project...
...Kimball explained this process to President Nelson A. Rockefeller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Said Mr. Rockefeller: "I see, you borrowed the money, then got the Government to double it, and then got people to give it to you." This quip rouses a loud and happy laugh from ample-chested Fiske Kimball...
Occasional laugh. But it is uneasy laughter. For the wicked old lady is seen debauching her young granddaughter (Joan Carroll), trying to debauch her teen-age granddaughter, Ellie May (Ginger Rogers). Their mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has become a wistful and underpaid trull, the sole support of her family and her gin-drinking scholar husband (Miles Man-der). Ellie May, a pig-tailed slum Diana, is barely saved from her mother's fate by Joel McCrea as she is racing (in a big car with her mother's ex-boy friend) toward San Francisco...