Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...academic grind, which no West Pointer can laugh off, proved only a passing problem to Blockbuster Blanchard. Differential calculus could hardly be mastered in five easy lessons, but neither could shot-putting, for that matter. In fact, it took Doc almost a whole season to get good enough to win the Indoor Intercollegiate 16-lb. shot-put title. Starting from scratch, he worked up to a solid 50 feet in just one winter...
Whether modern cinemaddicts will be amused by such stuff is Paramount's long shot. For many, Miss Lake's emaciated glamor and Bracken's solid sense of inanity will be enough. Others may enjoy being reminded of what they or their elders used to laugh...
...work of three young people who combine the homespun qualities of the kid next door with the zany hilarity of the Marx Brothers. One is Darryl Hickman, who plays the omnipresent Pringle moppet. Another is the gawky Courtland, a deadpan, loose-jointed adolescent who can get a laugh by just saying: "Holy cow!" But the most expert of all is Shirley Temple herself, now a first-rate comedienne and a very attractive young lady. While spending her early teens in comparative obscurity, Shirley forgot none of the tricks that once made her the cinema's most dreaded scene thief...
...those mysteriously incurable diseases which in filmdom carry off their perfectly healthy victims with stopwatch accuracy at curtain time. Ivy's inevitable wedding steeps all four principals in a maudlin effusion of unspoken nobility aimed at sending the audience out with a lump instead of a laugh in its throat...
Members snickered. Snapped Murray: "It is nothing to laugh about! What is the Minister going to do about...