Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give your lips to me and laugh up your sleeve...
Dear Ruth--at the Plymouth--The old Broadway hit, still good for more than one laugh and maybe even a smirk; but dated, of course...
Best shot in this disturbing but laugh-loaded short (18 min.) film: Harvard's famed Earnest Albert Hooton gloomily winding up a deadpan lecture to an anthropology class: "Mechanized and moronic man moves toward extinction. . . . Any questions...
...Kansans, their bone-dry liquor law has long been a laugh. Good whiskey is easier to get in Topeka than in wet Kansas City, Mo., 67 miles away. It just costs a little more. Everyone knows that there are at least 45 reliable bootleggers among Topeka's 76,000 population; that every bellhop has a ready pint or quart; that mixed drinks are served at the Rainbo, the Northern Star, the It'll Do Club; that to get a fifth of Old Granddad (unavailable in Kansas City) at Meadow Acres Ballroom, all you have to do is beckon...
Russians tried hard to laugh about the shortcomings of their new Five-Year Plan and the purges that came in its wake. The humorous weekly, Crocodile, ran a cover cartoon of a man filling milk cans at a water pump. Each can bore the legend "100% fulfilled." The caption: "Chief milkmaid, or how Tovarish Figure-Chaser fulfills the plan." To make the picture still funnier, P. V. Smirnov, the head of Russia's meat and milk production, was promptly fired. But the comedy was still strictly official. For in Russia last week a full-fledged purge, affecting all departments...