Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yoelson ran away from Washington, D. C, where he had learned to sing in the synagogue with his father, Cantor Yoelson. He got a job barking for a side-show with a country circus, later went into vaudeville and started blacking his face because he noticed that crowds always laughed at a black man. He worked with Dockstader's minstrels, then for the Shuberts. He was the first minstrel to get down on his knees when, in the chorus of a song, he came to the word "Mammy." Now a multimillionaire, third* richest actor in the world, he remains...
...public opinion could be gauged in Bucharest, last week, most Rumanians sympathized with Dowager Queen Marie, were indignant at the insinuation that U. S. citizens ever laughed at her, or are enjoying a last laugh...
...getting wet feet. The boy felt he would like a country of real dangers, of snakes and apes and Indians-somewhere he could play gallant to slim, brown Suzanne. Of course he "hadn't much use for females," but here was one with whom he could laugh, play, tumble, tease, poetize, and only once was there anything between Suzanne and him like what Ewald, jealous, was bold enough to insinuate. Wolf was a fighter, too: he promptly challenged Ewald but parents suppressed their pistol-duel, whereupon Wolf burst into sobs-"like a child"-on his mother's bosom...
...Irvin Cobb-bless his ugly old frontispiece-not only gave us many a laugh with his classical Operation Book but he showed us the practical side of humor by making an operation pay its way. . . . But if mine's not humorous, why, don't blame me. It's hard to be funny when you know the check will only pass through your hands...
...good friend, Mrs. Ira Warner. Returning he telephones No. 26 Broadway, transacts business, for he has not completely retired from oil. At 7:30, formally dressed, he sits down to dinner. Over the cloth he may tell a tale or two and his audience knows when to laugh. After dinner there is his favorite game, "Numerica." He plays it without cards or money. In bed by 11, John D. wills himself to sleep almost instantly...