Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Variety (Emil Jannings). Made in Germany is a trade mark which we learned, ten years ago, to shun. It is returning on the most American of all products, the movie, with irresistible authority. Germans have made several of the best motion pictures in history (The Last Laugh, Siegfried) and this latest sample is of unfailing excellence. It is not a new story, telling as it does of the pretty girl, the old trapeze artist, and the young trapeze artist who weaned away her love. It is a magnificent sample of the new German treatment, which depends chiefly on economy...
...Frenchmen?many of us at least?have enough humor to see the world as it is and to laugh at a good man who thinks two dying horses represent true...
...your readers sneered at me when I wrote you about von Richthofen?and you, of course, printed their sneers [TIME, Dec. 14, 28]. No German would have done that! We Germans?many of us at least?are strong enough to see the world as it is and to laugh at the terrors which two dead horses seem to hold...
...advertisement appearing in the current magazines offers to cure Mr. Babbitt, the type of all that is not Mencken, by selling him the American Mercury. It is a good advertisement in that it appeals to those who have learned to laugh at this particular phenomenon every time that it is seen. And it is as honest an advertisement as most...
...American Mercury does not represent the finest side of American life any more than Mr. Babbitt represents the worst but both show that much improvement is necessary before this country can in any large numbers produce a thinking being with a sense of humor. Mr. Babbitt cannot laugh at himself. The Mercury is no better. And whereas one is content to exist on the profits from tires and real estate, the other lives in that brand of human fish which bites any bait with a pseudo-intellectual flavor...