Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...psychology there is to make big shots into little ones. The country's" most poisonous malefactors are sent there to prevent their infecting less dangerous inmates of other Federal prisons. Alcatraz, "The Rock," is one nightmare which the most hardened criminals, outside it as well as in, cannot laugh off. Alcatraz is a result of the Lindbergh kidnapping. It was the invention and pet project of Franklin Roosevelt's first Attorney General, rapier-nosed Homer Stillé Cummings...
...once a year, when he goes to the annual outing of the Bond Club of New York at Tarrytown's Sleepy Hollow Country Club, he gets a laugh out of his plight. His laugh-provoker is the Bawl Street Journal, a bawdy scapegrace parody of the highly reputable Wall Street Journal. Edited by stocky, literate John A. Straley, pulp fiction writer and wholesale representative for Calvin Bullock, investment bankers, last week's 17th annual edition of the Bawl Street Journal (11,000 copies at 50?) was a sardonic reflection of the state of U. S. Business today...
Best spirit conversation followed the discovery that two pieces of broken cross exactly fitted. "Fuller," said Garland, "you are the wonder of the Fourth Dimension! That ought to make you laugh." Said Spook Fuller: "It does...
...elegant railroad amateur Lucius Beebe, a technical adviser on Union Pacific) as "the king's messengers." Traditionally the best actor and dramatic writer on any DeMille set, DeMille is usually patient, sometimes disconcerting. When two minor Union Pacific actors began an argument as to which should laugh louder in a scene, DeMille startled them by screaming: "Jumping Piltdown elephants! Let's not make an epic out of two grunts...
...Rose was not the only little man at the show. Encountered while he was resting between rounds of dedicating buildings, Mayor Fiorelio La Guardla said, "The Hasty Pudding Show? I got a great kick out of secing myself in that. I've been trying to copy that actor's laugh ever since...