Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laugh. There were other matters to preoccupy the delegates. Correspondents reported the sudden popularity of the "Champagne Cobbler" (½ jigger syrup, ½ jigger lemon extract, 1 jigger curaçao, 1 jigger cognac, 1 chunk of pineapple, add champagne to taste, serve chilled. Price: $6.60). Even Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...
...tries for incidental humor. Johnny O'Clock tries almost too hard. (In a checkered-tablecloth restaurant, the waiter serves Powell & girl two unordered straight shots. Powell: "Who ordered these?" Waiter: "Ever eaten here?" Powell:"No." Waiter:"You'll need 'em.") But the show's biggest laugh is unintentional. During a gambling session, Powell and his partner, by this time sworn enemies, step outside to split their profits and call it quits. After they have been gone a few tense minutes, the sound track shudders with a rattle of pistol shots. Cries one of the gamblers: "What...
False and cowardly are those who laugh...
...Benny, never too glib with an ad lib, has seldom had the last word. Fred is the deadliest remarksman in show business. Once Jack twitted Fred about some fictitious "signs they hold up on your program telling people when to laugh. We don't have them on our show." Fred retorted: "You must remember, Jack, we're dealing with a class of people who can read...
Materialism and science worship are in full retreat, eminent scientists leading the chase. Millikan proclaims that "the mechanistic philosophy is bankrupt." The trend is toward God, all right. Or rather, it is away from His enemies. It has become as fashionable and as easy to laugh at the blindness of ethical relativism with C. S. Lewis, the English wit, as it used to be to laugh with H. L. Mencken at the blindness of the Bible belt. But has the tone of the laughter improved? Is there...