Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howya' goin', huh? Done your Reading Period work yet? No. Me neither. It's a laugh. I say It's a laugh. I mean, the Reading Period. They took up the extra chairs today. yeh, the extra chairs. They took 'em up today. That's a fast one. Need them for the line outside the Dean's office...
...Mosca, who lies his master into wealth, and tricks him out of it again. His laugh at the moment of triumph is tight of mouth, and even as the curtain is erasing his story he is flinging florins to the grovelling gold-thirsty who had waited for the death of Volpone. Mosca need not be named in Boston as Alfred Lunt's part; Mr. Larimore has all the grace, and enough of the busy play of expression that belonged to the actor-guardsman. In Hamlet black, with a tight head of red curls that are in a mad way exact...
...Smith came home last week. On the day after his 55th birthday he had said goodbye to Albany, given Governor Franklin Roosevelt his blessing, left the capital while a band played "Laugh, Clown, Laugh." Then back to Manhattan he came, checked in at the Biltmore, began the theoretically obscure existence of a private citizen. The theory, however, proved unsound. Newspaper men, camera men, came to the Biltmore. They came to the Prudence Building, Madison Avenue and 43rd Street, where Mr. Smith had opened an office.* They wanted to know what Mr. Smith was going to do now. Annoyed, Mr. Smith...
...playing the piano, and she handed it to him with a look at once teasing, gay, quizzical and tender; as he turned to take his medicine, his eyebrows rose with gratitude and the curtain fell. There are those plays so delicately, so truly funny that one forgets to laugh until a perhaps clumsy joke, inserted for no other purpose, ignites the fuse of amusement that a superlative dialog has laid. Caprice is such a play. "You are the most abandoned woman I have ever known," says Albert to lisa, and she replies, "Abandoned? No one has ever abandoned...
Bebe Daniels in "What a Night" supplies more laughs than are usually forth-coming in what the producers label "comedy". She and Neil Hamilton carry on as the girl and boy reporters who snag the big news story of the year. The prize incident is when The Boy spills a bottle of ink down his trouser leg. "It's only ink" says She, as she watches it trickle. Does one laugh in a case like that...