Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago for the past month a model T laugh-getter has been burning up the road at a $17,000-a-week clip, leaving such streamlined models as Blithe Spirit and Angel Street to choke on its dust. Called Good Night Ladies, the show is the late Avery Hopwood's 22-year-old, towel-draped Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath, with hardly a line left that Hopwood would recognize, but with the situations all they were and then some...
...citizen, a song in his heart and Pollyannery in his head, had a good laugh at Horrible Harold Ickes last year. Ickes huffed & puffed and spread the alarm, but the filling-station pumps were always full. Oil-shortage talk, after fooling nobody, finally subsided. The U.S. told itself once again that there never could be an oil shortage, and thought it would be a good idea for Mr. Ickes to resign...
...military logic does not always prevail, and Litvinoff has needed all his diplomatic skill, his shrewdness, his hard common sense. A great belly laugher with ideal physical equipment -he stands 5 ft. 3 and weighs 200 lb. -he gets along fabulously well with laugh-loving Franklin Roosevelt. He works well with Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry Wallace, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Lend-Leaser Major General James H. Burns...
...Under the opinions about "men of mark" Mencken fails to mention Mark Twain's famous "Just that one omission alone[Jane Austen's books] would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." Lincoln's "I laugh because I must not cry-that's all, that's all" is overlooked; so are such famed phrases as "Damned clever, these Chinese" and "Elementary, my dear Watson"; so are such slogans as "Next to myself I like BVD best" and "War to end war," which are deeply impacted...
...Charlie Chaplin's unerring instinct for social satire that first brought home to Hollywood the comic possibilities of the Nazi philosophy. "To Be Or Not To Be," with the late Carole Lombard, is much in the same vein. Like the "Dictator," it succeeds in making us laugh at the most horrifying reality of our age; like the "Dictator" it applies the vigorous technique of slapstick to the logical absurdities of Nazism; like the "Dictator" it is slightly carried away by good intentions into a lapse of maudlin didacticism, aline to the spirit of the whole...