Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is only one type of role as far as the star of "Rain" is concerned, and that is light comedy, such as "Something Gay." "I love to hear the audience laugh. That is the best applause of all. In a serious drama I never feel that the audience is relaxed, and so I am always strained and tense myself. In light roles I'm always perfectly at ease...
...Newshawks who trooped into his office to twit him about boondoggles and ancient safety pins were quickly sobered. He was mad clean through. "Investigate?" barked he. "No! There's nothing the matter. Those are good projects, all of them. People who don't understand foreign languages sometimes laugh when they hear them. Dumb people make fun of things they can't understand...
Commented New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia: "There are some people who laugh if they hear a foreign language spoken-they think that's funny." At week's end the Mayor acted. By radio he informed citizens that Oswald Whitman Knauth, Ph.D., 47, department store executive and onetime Princeton economics instructor, had been appointed "super-director" of city relief...
Embarrassing last year was a stockholder's sarcastic sermon on the theme that in Balkan countries the correspondent of the London Times always seemed to be a munitions salesman for Vickers, and vice versa. There was also the clergyman-stockholder with the loud, ironic laugh at many of Sir Herbert's statements-not-withstanding the fact that the Church of England's Clergy Pension Institution owns more Vickers shares than the Chairman himself...
...schoolmate Herod Agrippa gave him good advice and remained his best friend, even when politics made them mortal enemies. With the best will in the world Claudius made mistakes, and an emperor's mistakes were hard to correct. But he kept hard at it, turned many a laugh on his critics by his homely shrewdness, gradually built up a solid popularity with the Roman populace. His greatest personal triumph was his successful campaign against Britain, when his bookish tactics went like clockwork. In all his tribulations his adored young wife Messalina was his greatest comfort. Claudius was the last...