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Word: laugh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...companies which gave the Harringtons subcontracts used to send inspectors to look over the shop, but have long since given it up. Says Richard: "I used to get a laugh out of those guys. When they spotted this place, they went nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pa, Ma & the Twins | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

This show must prove to Hollywood's satisfaction that the same old routine can be put over again and again if pepped up with a shot of light-hearted acting and novel lines. It is the perfect comedy for today; you can look at a uniform and still laugh, you can neglect the war and November hours, you can take your best girl and have one swell evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/14/1942 | See Source »

...Government has authorized the millowners to make advances in pay to the strikers. Congress supporters laugh at this maneuver and at attempts by the Government to persuade the millowners to recall the workers. 'We can keep the strike going indefinitely,' one Congressman told me. All known Congress leaders and agitators have been arrested, but . . . youths of twelve to 20 years of age intimidate anybody who attempts to return to work, and play a game of hide & seek with the police in the narrow alleyways of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foreign News, Nov. 2, 1942 | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...Pierre of the Plains", the second feature, makes you laugh in spite of yourself. With a corny plot, punk acting, and little excuse for being, it ought to be terrible. But for some well-disguised reason it's not. Maybe its because John Carroll, the leading actor, has such a great time. If you can't laugh with him, you can laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1942 | See Source »

Booked for a six-day tour and 25-minute shows, Bergen & friends Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd stayed twelve days, did 51 shows of 45 minutes each. At Dutch Harbor, where Charlie got the biggest laugh, he gave 13 straight shows. "Hello, stinky," Charlie would chirp from inside his floppy sheeplined coat & hat, and Bergen would reprimand him for his discourtesy to men in uniform. Thereupon Charlie would crack: "Don't give me that lieutenant routine." That was enough to split the sides of the soldiers. But what really spilled them into the aisles was Charlie's comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: World's Greatest Audience | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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