Word: laughe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were some vexations. The country was inclined to laugh. Catholic Bishop James E. Cassidy of Fall River deplored the idea as a "serious menace to the home and foundation of a true Christian and democratic country." Even Army officers joined in inconsidered and harmful wisecracks among their friends. But the women kept coming in at a gratifying rate, until by last January 20,943 had joined...
...greater host of firemen and police, turned up for the new dress rehearsal. On one side of the curtain was a tense cast, on the other a tense audience. Suddenly the director flung out on the stage, spluttered that there would be no performance. Ording had had the last laugh on The Last Cry-he too had disappeared. He and his wife trudged through knee-deep snow for three hours with a howling six-week-old baby, reached Sweden and safety...
...nest of long-range rocket guns emplaced near Calais. German propagandists had been sedulously plugging the story, last week let out a picture of the gun in action. But responsible sources in London had heard the story from non-German informants, and British authorities were in no mood to laugh it off (TIME...
...motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands at small-fry roles, as grown menaces the kids virtually never missed a cue muffed a line, threw away a laugh nor bungled a shudder. Down front a lot of their coevals were on the edge of their small seats...
...Rooney Wit. She even likes the Rooney ribbing and the Rooney wit. Well out of sight of the director, Mickey still mugs like a tic-ravaged chimpanzee in hopes that Cinemactress Garland will louse up the take with a laugh. An example of the Rooney wit occurred during the shooting of Babes in Arms. While Judy was catching a nap in her dressing room, Mickey planted a smoke-pot at the doorsill, bawled "FIRE!", and dashed a glass of water in her face as she sprinted out. Sometimes Miss Garland retaliates. When, making Girl Crazy, she appeared in white calfskins...