Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the regulars wear flamboyant disguises, assume fake accents to attract the attention of M.C.s, invent fantastic names and laugh-getting occupations. Mrs. Hertz does not stoop to such obvious devices. "I'm comical," she explains, with a gap-toothed grin, "I'm cute." After a fashion, she is. Short (4 ft. 10 in.) and pear-shaped, Sadie looks rather like a good-natured witch (a role she played last Halloween with obvious relish on WOR's Daily Dilemma). Her other assets as a quizgoer include ten years of experience, a bobbing head of tight grey...
...mounting air of martyrdom showed in his manner, burst out in his speeches time & again. Earlier in the week, at Moline, Ill., his audience had laughed when he said they had been afraid to park their cars near the hall for fear they would be identified. "You laugh," he shouted furiously, "but I've seen it happen in other places...
...bowing before his altar and its shrunken human contents, Moran explains that maybe some relatives would like the head as a paper weight for Christmas. If not, he adds, they certainly will be eager to get it at one of the University museums, where people can come in and laugh at the ridiculous taste of the Jibaro tribes...
...fill a three-hour play, but somehow nothing seemed forced. Richard Watson as the jovial Judge and Gwyneth Cullimore as the charming but money-conscious Plaintiff helped to make the evening joyous for both the arrogant Savoyard and the man who merely likes a good tune and a good laugh...
Meanwhile, at St. James's Theater, Guy Domville had opened brilliantly, but during the second act the audience began to laugh at an elderly actress whose hoop skirt and high plumed hat struck them as ridiculous. Then the producer (and star) made an awkward last-act exit, and the uproar became a thunderstorm...