Word: laughe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained a flop on the lot. At last Paramount woke up, but it made Hope wake up also. Before handing him the lead in The Cat and the Canary, Paramount Producer Arthur Hornblow talked to Hope like a Dutch uncle, told him he'd do anything for a laugh-gore another actor, bolt clean out of character. Hope began, fumed Hornblow, by making audiences grin, ended by making them grit their teeth. The Cat and the Canary clicked: since then Hope has whizzed through many another comedy thriller (The Ghost Breakers, My Favorite Blonde, They Got Me Covered), strutted...
...husky man inan apron (Mr. Grant) is always good for a laugh. When he is surrounded by knitting matrons who gravely inform him that purl is spelt pee-yew, the appeal is irresistible...
This week the Army had the last laugh. From five bids for the Stevens it chose to take $5,251,000 cash on the barrelhead from Arnold Kirkaby, who already owns Chicago's Drake and Blackstone Hotels...
...Laugh That Failed. Last week, folks along the Minnesota were too busy to laugh. Into the Minnesota at new Port Cargill they triumphantly plopped a 180-ft. Army towboat, the Bataan (cost $1,000,000), moored it snugly alongside three 300-ft. ocean tankers they have launched in the last four months, are now fitting out. Without wasting a moment, they jumped to work on the first of a new batch of Navy tankers Cargill contracted to build fortnight...
...capture of Kharkov. Thus, too, Russia let off some of the strain accumulated through two years of blood, tears, broken hopes and cruel disappointments. The celebration was a safety valve. Confident of triumph, Russia's leaders were now allowing the people to relax for a night, to laugh, to inhale the sweet air of victory...