Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suspi:ions about him, just as he prepared to go into retirement after 26 years of vexing the public. Chuckled 70-year-old Prognosticator Henry C. Gross: "I often hear people on streetcars cussing me out. I always raise my newspaper in front of my face and laugh about...
Whatever limb they lost, U.S. war casualties kept their funnybones. Cartoon ist Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner Yokum, discovered this when he toured Army hospitals, found that amputees scorned dust-dry rehabilitation tomes, laughed their postwar worries away with comic books. Capp, who lost a leg as a young man, was sure that legless G.I.s could learn and laugh at the same time...
Lesser Poles explained that Russia's understanding with the Polish Provisional Government featured a two-way stretch. Said one, with a laugh as hollow as proud Poland's claim of independence, "When Vishinsky wants to back up, he lets our man go forward...
...Strinberg, which, if not handled with great finesse, can all too easily collapse into a conglomeration of heroics and absurd fantasy. In his contemporary Gorki, the intellectual depression around 1900 produced revolutionary ideas; in Andreyev it resulted in the almost morbid gloom of such works as "The Red Laugh...
...Burrows is a wit's wit, a clown's clown. The late Robert Benchley called him "the greatest satirist" in the U.S. The men who make the public laugh-Danny Kaye, Groucho Marx, Fred Allen, Jack Benny-split their sides laughing when Abe performs. Outside a little circle of Hollywood and Manhattan partygoers, few know the 35-year-old, balding, blinking radio writer whose hobby is poking fun at Tin Pan Alley. But last week, Abe agreed that his stuff was too good to keep. He began a $3,000-a-week job writing a new CBS comedy...