Word: laughing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still very proud of it. He seems to be unashamed of having been an undergraduate at "both Universities" (Oxford & Cambridge), a feat few Englishmen would care to mention. He tried Oxford first, "was ploughed" (flunked out) when he translated socordiam eorum inridere licet ?"It is licentious to laugh at a sister of mercy"?put his answers in the Divinity paper into such rhymes...
...anything new. Hot Water, his latest offering, shows him a keen student of U. S. vaudeville gags, funny sheets, Walter-Winchellisms. It is a tribute to his skill as a merciless horser of musi-comedy scenes, dialog and situation that he is still able to raise many a horse laugh. Packy, U. S. Adonis, ex-Yale footballer and recent millionaire, has bitten off more than he really wants to chew in getting engaged to a beautiful English bluestocking. Fat, henpecked Mr. Gedge is in an even tougher spot, living in enforced exile from his beloved California, his Shriner tendencies sternly...
...Party), like so many informally-handed cups of tea, have a lighthearted, everyday, almost always amusing flavor. But this time the leaves are not quite fresh, the brew is a little bitter. Usually she manages to be not too true to life to be funny. But unless you can laugh at locksmiths you will find nothing in A Good Man's Love to hold your sides over...
...words, is too long for your columns, why not print the Democratic platform, which (omitting the preamble) contains only 1,100 words and would not require much of your valuable space? You might headline it "This is what we call vague." You would at least get a good laugh from your readers, although it would be at your expense...
...bitter squabble in which Macfadden threatened to undersell My Story with a new one to be called Your Story. Later Publisher Delacorte upset a Macfadden scheme to publish Hullabaloo in imitation of Delacorte's Ballyhoo. Few months ago Delacorte pilfered Macfadden's idea for a burlesque tabloid newspaper, Laugh Parade, beat him to the newsstand with a Nutty News. When Macfadden announced last fortnight a forthcoming magazine entitled Babies: Just Babies, with Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt as editrix, no one would have been greatly surprised to hear Publisher Delacorte say that he would do something similar. Last week he said...