Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news-reels and a raving, screaming, hair-tearing March of Time is quite refreshing. If the end of the world is imminent, if Willkie and Roosevelt aren't both elected, if England and Germany don't both win, it won't do anyone any barm to have a good laugh before Judgment...
...backs--and you have Pottawatomic University at stop Gap, New Mexico, the cultural center of our great south-West. This is the setting of George Abbot's play, which--amply supplied with Hart-Rodgers songs, oh-so-pretty coeds, and nearly half the gags good for a laugh--is well worth seeing...
They were still able to laugh. These Germans, they said, are certainly inventive. First they flooded the world with "experts," incredible numbers of them expertising all the wray from China to Chile. Then they sent out "tourists"-40,000 of them supposedly rubbernecking in Spain right now. Then there were "refugees," leaving Bessarabia when Russia moved in and taking up strategic refuge all over the Balkans. Then there were "official photographers"-22 of them recently reported in full Nazi uniform in Bulgaria. And now "instructors." In order to instruct the Rumanians in the arts of combat, the Germans were said...
...hobbies, writing verse and music. But the Mayor could find no one to fill the bill at $10,000 a year. The commissioner advertised in the papers for a $6,500-a-year deputy, promised him "at least one heartbreak a day . . . and at least one hearty laugh a week." Although some 200 men were bold enough to apply, none was acceptable...
Mozart: Concerto in B Flat Major for Bassoon and Orchestra (Ferdinand Oubradous, with orchestra conducted by Eugene Bigot; Victor: 4 sides). Mozart's tunes let Bassoonist Oubradous purl sweetly as well as boop for a laugh...