Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kind of fun which Ed Wynn provides does not vary much from play to play but he has a large body of followers for whom Ed Wynn, like Groucho Marx, is sufficient in himself. The personality is more important than the vehicle. In the case of "The Laugh Parade," which is small beer in its interludes of song and dance, this is especially true...
...vote for the party's 1932 candidate. In his shirt-sleeves Governor Roosevelt appeared repeatedly on the observation platform of the Pioneer. Supporting himself on the upright bars used for loud speaker apparatus,* he was cheery and chatty with all-comers. He found he could always get a laugh by introducing his six-foot-three son as "My little boy Jimmy...
...Arkansas Democratic State Convention, Senator Watson's rival Floor-leader. Senator Joseph T. Robinson, had just reached the high pitch of a speech when out flew his false upper teeth. Retiring to the wings, he reinserted the plate and asked: "Why didn't they laugh?" A friend: "You had them spell-bound...
Meek Soviet citizens who dress, work, laugh and even love very much as their State directs, looked back last week on a momentous 90 days, a summer during which Russia's leaders historically changed their cultural directives* to provide more fun for All the Russias...
...championship of mere pleasure for its own sake would have cost any Communist his treasured Party membership last spring. But Josef Stalin, shrewdest of shrewd Dictators, has sensed that millions of Russians are sick of his laborious Five-Year-Plan, deaf to exhortations and are increasingly hungry. Let them laugh then and be cheered...