Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five of them from the House of Peers, two from the Diet's major parties). As chief secretary of the Cabinet the Premier chose Akira Kazami, a minor politician with no money. Kazami was as surprised by the appointment as the rest of Japan. With a deep belly laugh he roared: "Ha! Ha! Wisdom is not in my line; neither is money. Turn me upside down and you won't get even a nosebleed...
...Common and back on Washington Street the Vagabond picks the least objectionable of the Double Features, and he too climbs the carpeted stairway to emerge from the dark onto the top of the world, follows the dancing spot of the flashlight to a seat, and settles back to laugh or cry with housewives and clerks under the spell of the Celluloid Muse...
...Best laugh of the campaign was provided by a widely circulated picture showing grey, bespectacled Mayor Shaw seated in an automobile with President & Mrs, Roosevelt with the National Capitol in the background. The picture's caption: "This heretofore unpublished photo shows President and Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Los Angeles' dynamic Mayor, Hon. Frank L. Shaw, motoring near the National Capitol during Mayor Shaw's recent visit in Washington." Candidate Ford offered "final and conclusive" proof that Mayor Shaw had not motored with the Roosevelts in Washington, that a picture taken when Mayor Shaw rode through...
Announcer: "The first thing the quintuplets do upon rising with a cheery smile is to--(pause; here the audience should laugh, not altogether but separate, raucous laughs in various parts of the theatre) wash their hands and face. Notice, mothers, how they brush their own teeth themselves. Before, you have seen the girls crawl, walk, and gibber but never talk; now for the first time Emilie, who is squeezing the toothpaste over the nurse's dress, will say "Mais oui' in French...
Edward Everett Horton and Eric Blore turn in their usual fine performances and play no small part in making this picture laugh provoking. Gershwin music is hard to catch, but two numbers, "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," and "You Can't Take That Away From Me," immediately set the audience humming...