Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town and I will sit down with them and eat chow. They won't have a tree but while they're eating they'll be thinking of the tree in the living room back home. Some kid will make a joke and all the guys will laugh but it's not the kind of laugh they used to have when they were with their folks. And after chow they won't ask me to sing Jingle Bells or Ball Game. They'll ask for I'll Be Seeing You or Goodbye Sue. Most...
...audience tittered. But the laugh was not really on Bennett Clark. Next day, when the committee met in secret session, the nomination of Archibald MacLeish as Assistant Secretary of State was turned down, by a vote...
...Funny. In the U.S., they have been the butt of easy jokes - but the British, still full of memories of the days when the Home Guard was the backbone of home defense, are not so ready to laugh. The Volksstürmer have done an immense amount of work on Germany's border fortifications. The East Prussian Gauleiter boasted that in 100 days they had dug enough antitank ditches to reach from Königsberg to Lisbon. By taking over garrison duties in the rear, the Volkssturm releases better soldiers for the front lines. Whether fighting or digging, they...
...Anderson crew began looking for some other target, found a fine fat factory in Hamamatsu (55 mi. south of Nagoya) and plunked their bombs squarely among its buildings. Then came the letdown. Back on Saipan, Anderson reported his emergency measure-and got a big laugh. The plant was a musical instrument factory...
Dear Ruth has the straight Broadway virtues: smooth casting and direction (by Moss Hart), a lively charting of every navigable foot of plot, and a family album full of action shots and funny poses. Basically the characters are all tintypes, and the play uses anything that will get a laugh, lend a twist or bring down a curtain. Some of them bring down the house as well...