Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purpose: to enable photographers in time of war to fly high above enemy territory and laugh at anti-aircraft guns popping uselessly beneath them...
...Laugh, Clown, Laugh. The time has now definitely arrived when only a very small and insensitive urchin will be so mean as to laugh at one of Ringling's Pierrots capering in the centre ring. Everyone else is aware that the spangled comedian has an unhappy love life, a severe case of pyorrhea, and an insatiable appetite for the flesh of the Australian wombat. Only the most agonized and pathetic courage enables him to smile and dance in the performance of his duties. This picture concerns a Grimaldi whose unhappy habit is to moan and wail whenever approached...
...emotional crisis occurs when he falls in love with his little ward, only to learn that she loves Luigi, nobleman. The clown refuses to accept the sacrifice of affection which is proffered him by his lady. Instead, he kills himself by sliding down a wire. "Laugh, Clown, Laugh," he cries before his suicide...
...none other, as he glumly reflects, than himself. Lon Chaney goes off on a tear in the part of tragic Tito. While it puts some limit upon his metamorphic talent, he is able still to twist his face into many a contorted grin and to slobber frequently with sorrow. Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a trite picture and not a true one, but it succeeds surprisingly often in its lugubrious intentions...
...miser who missed fire, modernized and improved (TIME, April 23). THE HAPPY HUSBAND-Miss Billie Burke proving that, on rare occasions, a woman can forgive her husband for forgetting to be jealous (TIME, May 14). Also: THE SHANNONS OF BROADWAY, THE ROYAL FAMILY, OUR BETTERS. MUSICAL Look, Listen, Laugh: Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Funny Face, Show Boat, Rain or Shine, The Three Musketeers, Present Arms...