Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sadism and torture of recent times on the Nazis and Japs. Can it be that there are those in our own United States who have still not had their fill of suffering, torture and slow death these past few years? ... If there are those who can stand and "laugh" and "cheer" at this unbelievably disgusting exhibit of perversion in one of our states, then we had better take up the cudgels where we left off in Europe...
...Harlem. His mother, Mrs. Sandra Berlinger, a Wanamaker and Gimbels store detective, began peddling him around New York's old Biograph movie studios when he was only five. At 16, she shoved him into his first solo comedy act, planted herself in the audience and started every big laugh with a stentorian "yak" that soon became famed throughout show business. At 21, Milt was a smash hit at the Palace, rolled on to successes on Broadway. But most of all, he wowed them in nightclubs. (His latest run: 46 weeks at Manhattan's Carnival Club...
...Tichborne begged her husband to give them some of his land. The Master of Tichborne gazed coldly at his bedridden lady. "Very well," he said at last. "An you're so generous, you may give my land away-all that you yourself can walk around." With a grim laugh, he left the room. But Lady Tichborne, even her dying womanpower not to be underestimated, crept from her bed and down the stairs. By the end of the day, moving painfully on hands & knees, she had encircled 23 acres, known to this day in Hampshire as "The Crawls...
...fellow the photographers and white folks saw was not the Joe Louis that Harlem knew. Away from his own people, he was always conscientious about being a credit to his race. Harlem knew him as a man sometimes angry and sometimes moody-but also a fellow who could relax, laugh his head off, throw expensive parties. He was the softest touch in town. His friends told him that hangers-on sometimes "borrowed" up to $50 from Joe's pants while he was taking a bath, but Joe didn't seem to mind. Said he: "Money...
...leading spirit of Sinking-in-the-Ooze is the Heart Throb himself, a small-voiced, nervous bloke with a laugh as scratchy and uncertain as a wrong key at a lock. Barker's scenes with his designing secretary (played by his wife, Pearl) often carry off the show. "There," says Pearl, "two eyes looking at you so tenderly, two soft arms offering you something you can't possibly resist." Barker: "Camembert!" Pearl: "No, Love!" Barker (with a quivery laugh): "Steady, Barker...