Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there will remain such folk as Jack Cornwall, laugh man of his company, who with others believes that "things are tough and the world can always appreciate a laugh to its ultimate advantage." Naylor Cragin, however, reports that Jack has acquired another German tome and secretly sympathizes with his next term roommate...
Vice President Harry Truman, whose friends never laugh when he sits down at the piano (he plays), probably never read this volume, but last week it looked as though he would not need to. The amiable Missourian with the touch of country in his voice and manner had conquered a schedule that had Mrs. Truman and Capital society writers breathless...
...uneasy sort, in a seedy-bourgeois Jewish pension. But he soon learns that in Hitler's Berlin it is as much as your life is worth to ask for somebody's address, and that if you are a Jew, your British citizenship is worth only a laugh. When he takes his little problem to the police, he is arrested under suspicion of involvement in the assassination of a Nazi official...
Miss Barrymore as Ernle's mother can make you laugh or cry with expressive eyes that are not appreciated on the stage. Barry Fitzgerald in the role of a kindly old busybody delivers his usual charming performance. June Dupres is a deeply touching heroine...
...thing in the world she knew better how to do than anyone else alive was to get into an office. In September 1938 she flabbergasted the business manager of Harper's Bazaar and most of her friends by applying for a job as an advertising salesman. The universal laugh that went up was quickly quieted. Ten days after she started she landed her first account; by year's end she was their star salesman...