Word: laughe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scene the First: a bloodthirsty lady waiting in the stands for the decapitation of Anne Boleyn (that's Merle Oberon) says to the female in front of her, "Would you mind removing your hat, please?" From there on, it's deuces (and Queens) wild, with an intended or unintended laugh ever 7 1-2 seconds, and a chance to receive the most erroneous impression of a historical period that ever engraved upon celluloid. Scene the Second: in struts Charles Laughton as the marrying king, with some of the placid content of an enraged bull in a cow pasture...
Czechoslovaks find little to laugh at these days. But last week they smiled grimly at a story currently making the rounds of Prague's beer cellars and coffeehouses. A prominent politician, one of the few leftovers from the old guard of President Masaryk, was being questioned by a worried friend: "Sometimes it looks as if war between Russia and the U.S. were just around the corner, doesn't it?" "It certainly does, sometimes." "And with whom, do you think, Czechoslovakia should ally herself, if and when?" "With Russia, of course...
Last week, in King's Bench Court, a jury heard MGM's sulky defense: Miss Robertson was against "heart interest" in films; she had used her BBC time for "self-exhibitionism"; she had punctuated her reviews with "her charming but extremely cynical little laugh...
Life with the prophet was always exciting. At times he received divine revelations almost monthly. He was a man as well as a prophet; he loved to laugh, wrestle and drink. In seven years Nauvoo became the biggest city (20,000) in Illinois...
Pancakes. But most sensible people were inclined to laugh it all off. Scientists and aviation officials, to whom the mystified U.S. turned for an explanation, were sure that the whole thing was nothing more than "mass hysteria." Englishmen began to compare the "flying saucers" to Scotland's Loch Ness monster...