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Word: laughing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed British off-color-storyteller, Max Miller, got the only laugh in which Their Majesties could not very well join. Unlike the rest of the audience, King George and Queen Elizabeth apparently did not know the end of the extremely old and questionable anecdote which Mr. Miller began to tell, then brought down the breathless house by glancing at the Royal Box and breaking off "No, no! I can't tell this one tonight!" Instead Max told the one about the girl who said to him "Aren't you ugly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Command Performance | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Laugh it off? Although Marx Dormoy had used a most discreet tone, his stated revelations were just about the most alarming which an official of the French Republic could make with any semblance of discretion. Significantly the French people last week gave no sign of having been alarmed. "The man in the street," correspondents soon cabled, "seems inclined to laugh the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Monstrous Conspiracy | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...irritates and is irritated by his fellow pedagogue in numerous amiable ways. Phoebe Foster is quite satisfactory as the quietly domineering aunt, relieved of her nieces in time to scare the leading housemaster with the threat of marrying him, and marrying the other one instead. You won't laugh at this play so much as you'll smile in silent enjoyment, and you'll come out gratefully relaxed...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1937 | See Source »

...disappeared the morning of the Harvard game, but when the opening whistle blow he was there all right. He really was taken the following spring by Harvard's Lampoon and was photographed licking the boots of John Harvard. Some said the picture was a phoney, but everybody got a laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Eleven Falls to Overcome "Blues" Suffered at "Handsome Dan's" Death | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Baba Goes to Town" is a good musical comedy but a mediocre political satire. It makes people laugh but seldom think, ergo the perfect evening's relation. Some of the wisecracks are excellent, others can be soon hours before they come...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

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