Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country flight in 1932 to address the Chicago Convention which first named him for the Presidency-Franklin Roosevelt returned. He returned not to wave his hat to a cheering crowd, but to face his White House press corps -including the men who usually defend him from all critics and laugh at his humor-this time hopping...
...lighting into his work each morning with something of the same sort of heavy, rolling eagerness that his big Hampshire porkers show in running for the day's first trough. He has a rich country sense of humor, loves long, involved, chronicle jokes, and has the heartiest laugh in the Cabinet-a booming roar that makes other people chuckle all the way out the White House lobby...
...airy satire of George S. Kaufman to Broadway his thoughts were not on the improvement of the theater's breed but on the box office. In Depression, when he was putting on shows like Of Thee I Sing, he cannily observed: "People like to find that they can laugh at important things and institutions...
...celebrate the end of their childish resistance I now decree that the Fourth of July, known to them as Independence Day, shall be known henceforth as "Laugh at America Day." Let 24 hours of continuous laughter at their stupidity ring through our New World on that date. I myself shall be on the air in New York to lead you in that great laugh chorus...
...yeoman in the U.S. Navy during World War I, 50-year-old Al Blake had a job as "Keeno, King of the Robots" in a Los Angeles store window. Standing beside a male dummy, he defied spectators to make him laugh or to tell which figure was human. Some four months ago a Japanese named Toraichi Kono ran into Al Blake. Well-known in Hollywood. Kono was once Charlie Chaplin's valet and private secretary, now has a small business...