Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Santa Claus) lacks ingenuity. This is the first vision in Lampy's nightmare. We turn the page and the inconsistency staggers us. Herman's wife, William Tell, Cyrano de Bergerac and something indelicate about women undressing in newspaper headlines, poke the spectator feebly in the ribs but no responsive laugh comes forth, because there is no sense of reality...
...also violent, impudent, farcical, grotesque and intellectually unscrupulous. It is impossible that writers who "go on" with the pen as they do could reliably distinguish a good book or good play from a bad one. . . . I do not wish them death. I read them with gusto. They make me laugh...
...they sink into insignificance. It has frequently happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call a fellow-proctor to enjoy the laugh with...
...jail, with such success that he is elected to Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor in the play) wrote the book, worked in many a laugh, also insinuated a jail scene, one of those atrociously vulgar burlesques on sex perversion so popular this year. It was greeted enthusiastically, justifying entirely the discretion of the writers. The audience left the theatre whistling " 'Cross the River . . ." in a thousand different keys, in uniformly cheerful spirit...
...fantastic comedy" (i.e. farce) of two variously aged spinstresses who quit Amesbury, Mass., for a glimpse of sheiks and harems in the desert. There they are tumbled about by means of a superabundance of stage gags so long standardized that the Manhattan first nighters knew just where to laugh. The surprise of the performance was Helen Lowell. In the serious part of the wife in God Loves Us earlier this season she won praise. Now she comes prancing on to the stage in a comic swimming suit, her face plastered with cosmetic...