Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Native Indians welcomed ashore WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins and PWAdministrator Harold Ickes, who peeped over his spectacles at the surrounding thatched huts, drew a laugh from the party by remarking: "Low-cost housing...
...popular of Soviet comedies. More than a million Russians have seen it. It has been produced in Paris, Vienna, London, Rome, Berlin (by Max Reinhardt) and by numerous amateur and stock companies in the U. S. Consistently boisterous and occasionally funny, it is supposed to show that Russians can laugh at the pomposities of Communist doctrine under the tolerant eye of the Soviet high command, which knows a good safety-valve when it sees...
...third act the audience, already restless, was offended at a scene in which a husband became seasick after discovering that his wife was deceiving him. Stamping in urison began, accompanied by a strange laughter. The laughter was "transformed into a sort of murmur," then into a "more nervous, snickering laugh," a deep, terrifying silence, a low rumble, then hissing. "If you have never heard yourself hissed you can have no notion of how physically painful it is. I can imagine that if one has committed an evil act, has been disloyal, has committed treason or a felony,-one should...
...named Reginald Gardiner who imitates trains, dirigibles, steamships. Other features of an evening of fair fun: the dancing feet of Eleanor Powell, back from Hollywood where they clipped off her bangs, frizzed her hair, enameled her face and made her look like all the other Hollywood girls; the singing laugh of Ethel Waters in a series of tunes strongly reminiscent of her As Thousands Cheer melodies; the slightly unsteady gyrations of Dancer Paul Haakon. Among the good tunes, some of which thrifty Messrs. Schwartz & Dietz have salvaged from their Ivory Soap radio program: Love Is a Dancing Thing...
...Odom dismissed the Christenberry charges with "a derisive laugh." In all candor, however, he added: "It is possible that someone said something about shooting Long. Wherever two or three people gathered together that thought was expressed?on street corners, in hotel lobbies and in barrooms...