Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether you laugh at any of it depends on what kind of comedy you like. Olsen and Johnson present the corniest and slapstickiest line of gage since the pie-throwing twenties...
...score of Prime Ministers, was still a grinning replica of themselves. Founded in 1841 in imitation of the French Le Charivari, Punch or the London Charivari is less a funny magazine than a gently distorted mirror for Britons. Seeing his idiosyncrasies pleasantly caricatured in it, John Bull can laugh and feel satisfied-whether or not the world laughs with...
...Laughed At." An institution itself, housed in offices as gloomy, well polished, and oak-paneled as any at Whitehall, Punch is in a position to laugh at other Empire institutions. Its personal concession to the war consists of a well-stacked pile of sandbags behind a wall of corrugated iron to protect its handsome entrance at 10 Bouverie St. But behind the door Editor Edmund George Valpy Knox, 63, with a staff of three, supervises the production of his magazine with little change from his peacetime routine. Paper rationing has cut Punch's pages to 28 an issue...
Overhead: "My daughter took one look at me and went into dramatics." Snickers were heard. Well, gentlemen, laugh if you will, but what would you have done if you were in her place...
...Laughs ... "I like best of all," Elsa once observed, "the sincerity in the anxious eyes of all the little American women who are trying to be useful to their country." Elsa, not little but conspicuously American, considers her parties, like her "Line," an important contribution to the nation's morale. She once swore she would never do a column, because she hates gossip and abhors café society ("The only society I recognize is that of intellect and talent"). Only because "people needed to laugh more" did she yield in 1941 when Paul Winkler of Press Alliance syndicate offered...