Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call, heard a voice say: "This is Frank. May I talk to Miss Perkins?'' Said the assistant to Secretary Perkins: "It's Frank." Replied she: "Frank? I don't know any Frank. Ask him whom he's with." Questioned, the caller burst into a laugh, explained: "With the United States. This is the President...
Eddie Cantor: Just like my little boy says, Laugh, clown, Laugh...
...disobedient. "You see, Johnny is really an important member of the cast, even though there was no part written for him in the play. He comes on the stage and whines and misbehaves, and is terribly restless, and doesn't realize he's on the stage. He makes everybody laugh when they should pay attention to the rest...
...easy, conversational tone the President said that he had gratifying news from the iron, steel and textile industries about the workings of the NRA. This produced blank stares only until the quicker-witted correspondents started to laugh at the President's little joke. Seriously he then announced the exchange at 11:50 p. m. the night before of five sets of diplomatic notes at the White House between himself and chubby, thick-tongued Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Secretary of State Hull's absence from the U. S. left...
...experience; such, for example, as that offered in school and college dramatics. I know that the first time that I really began to act was one evening, three years after I had taken up the stage. I was playing in a light, romantic comedy. Suddenly I heard the audience laughing, and realized that what I was saying, and the way in which I was saying it was making them laugh; and I realized that I had the power to make them laugh. From them on, I believe I really began to act and to give real interpretation to may paris...