Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world has laughed at the name of Beecham?first at Joseph the father, who made a fortune at pill-making, winning a baronetcy thereby, then at Thomas the son, who squandered it* in the name of music, and wheeled about to mock the entire British public for its lack of appreciation. Some three thousand wanted to laugh one night last week in Manhattan when Sir Thomas lifted his baton for his U. S. debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra. He had come on calmly enough, like a slick little middle-aged banker surveying his premises. Then he stepped...
There faced me one of the most pathetic sights I have ever beheld. It cackled a laugh at my bewilderment. Words came through the drooling lips. Craig...
...dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused his imaginary guests with a miniature ballet dance, furnished by two forks, each shod with a roll. But it would be very difficult not to laugh at Charles Chaplin when he finds that the wire is broken which was to have preserved his equilibrium on the high, dangerous tightrope; and when, to add to this horrible predicament, three vicious monkeys run after him and tear his clothes off. These are not, moreover, the only truly comic...
...Laugh. The stately figure of Fannie Hurst strode in among last week's horde of notables with plays for sale. Miss Hurst's play was concerned with Jewish matters, as was her great short story Humoresque, later acted by Laurette Taylor. The latest, inferior to Humoresque, is moderately well performed by Edna Hibbard. She marries a crook, reforms him. Her simple Jewish parents are much harassed by wealthy surroundings thrust upon them by an unexpectedly prosperous son who sells antiques...
...convicted criminals. It would remove the perplexing scientific problems from the hands of ignorant juries, and yet the dangerous tendency towards leniency would persist as the experts became bogged in the theories of behaviorism. Thus, it is disconcerting but wise, to realize that posterity too will have its laugh at the difficulties contemporary penology is having with a clumsily handled mass of hypotheses...