Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs seized several U.S. films in Batavia. One was Charlie Chaplin's satire on Hitler, The Great Dictator, which they showed "four or five times for a bunch of Japanese officers and they all had a big laugh out of it." Their favorite picture was 1,000,000 B.C. ("It showed the white man in a rather low state of life. They sit tearing at bones and acting like animals...
...fine ear for the devilish ironies and self-betrayals of normal speech (or writing), and her whole book is nervous and vivid with them. But she has also the monologuist's weakness for overemphasis, for sacrificing psychological integrity in favor of a laugh or a sniff. Even so, The Whole Heart is an impressive, realistic piece of work...
...London, for example, more than one of 12 TIME and LIFE editorial people there knows what it is like to walk and talk with the Archbishop of Canterbury (he has a laugh that rattles windows)-or knows the inside of H. G. Wells' house near Regent's Park (he likes to play charades, brags about his diabetes)-or what it is like to dine with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trades Union Club (he drops cigaret ashes on his front, wears colored shirts, talks about crossing carrier pigeons with parrots so they can deliver verbal messages...
Edward Everett Horton, Hollywood star, currently appearing in the laugh riot, "Springtime for Henry," at the Colonial Theater in Boston, will be the guest of honor at a tea to be given this afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock in the Eliot House Junior Common, Room. Mrs. John B. Finley, wife of the House Master, probably will officiate at the affair...
...Mosquitoes had gone. Berlin was silent. On their day of jubilee, Germans wondered, as Herr Goebbels had wondered ten years before, whether to laugh or weep...