Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connection that the CRIMSON has been in a rather amusing way attempting to cut its own throat? Every presidential year the CRIMSON has held a straw poll which has heretofore attracted considerable interest. This year rather than receiving the respect it deserves, there will be a great temptation to laugh off the result, in view of the clownish behavior of the CRIMSON itself...
...porch. She asked what the trouble was. He explained that Philip and the other sister, Mary, had found a little dead bird and were having a funeral for it. He had been crying because "they wouldn't let me come to the funeral. They said I'd laugh...
...leader of Mrs. Mc Pherson's choir struck up a hymn, drowning out Bishop White. But the Bishop closely watched her chances and shouted disconcerting questions in such fashion that two more hymns had to be sung - while Evangelist McPherson flushed hotly in her pulpit. Finally, with a laugh which some considered mocking, the Reverend "Bishop" Mrs. Alma White flounced out of her box and Albert Hall. Smart London had no need to notice or to scoff. The third McPherson revival was cancelled, when not even the lower classes could be induced to buy more than...
Founder Barnes has preserved the col egiate informality of his early meetings. At bon mots the Evening Club audiences laugh as they dare not in formal church. Points well-given and taken are applauded not by silent acquiescent nods but by vigorous beating of palm on palm. When the meeting closes, people go out on Michigan Avenue. Some look up at the Chevrolet sign that gives the time every 60 seconds, and set their watches with nobler intentions...
Bronson) is a cigaret girl who has always loved Al. She persuades him to return to Broadway. Marcus has been looking for him. He joins a show, again gulps huzzas. Then word comes that Sonny Boy is dying in a Manhattan hospital. Here is the opportunity for the "Laugh, Clown. Laugh'' pishtish which was ignored in The Jazz Singer, when instead of going on with the show, Jolson went to synagog, substituted for his father, the dying cantor. With his son dead in the hospital, Al takes his turn behind the footlights, sings "Sonny...