Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Leo Thomas Crowley had a good laugh on his fellow bankers. In solemn conclave at a meeting of the American Bankers Association in Chicago last summer they had resolved that in their "deliberate judgment" deposit in surance involved dangers both "genuine and serious." And ever since Jan. 1 when limited Federal deposit insurance became effective for $15,345,832,955 in 54,000,000 accounts, the bankers have been holding their breath waiting for the first crash. Up to this week not one of the 13,431 insured banks throughout the land had closed its doors...
President Roosevelt boomed out a big laugh, hoisted himself out of his chair. Thus omitted was the formal top-hatted delegation which a more conventional Administration would have expected Congress to have sent down Pennsylvania Avenue to say the same thing that Leader Robinson had made a joke of. His children, grandchildren, wife and friends following in four cars behind, the President rode hatless to the Capitol. His secretaries clucked their tongues at the wreaths of mist which hung about their bareheaded chief as he swung up a ramp to the House wing. On the arm of his son James...
...Hearted Herbert is an obvious, unimportant, moderately amusing three-act caricature in which J. C. Nugent, father of Cinema-Director Elliot Nugent, turns himself into the spitting image of the type of character that Cartoonist W. E. Hill draws in Among Us Mortals. Actor Nugent gets the best laugh in the play by the simple device of holding his breath. This causes him to grow red with apoplectic indignation in the third act when his wife tells his dinner guests, as he told hers the night before, about his humble origin...
...Hamlet: O, reform it (the play) altogether. And let those that play your glowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some barren quantity of spectators to laugh too; though, in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses...
...crisis" Japan's militarists mean "the big war" (see p. 36). In Ambassador Saito they will have a spokesman who can laugh as meaningfully as President Roosevelt himself. In many of the world's capitals "Saito parties" are familiar to the diplomatic set. There is always plenty of rice wine and champagne, plenty of Scotch whiskey, plenty of noise. A great hostess, Mrs. Saito is a daughter of the Court Physician of Japan's greatest Emperor, the late Meiji...