Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators laughed; they always laugh at Pat Harrison when they have nothing else to do. The first week of a Senate session is more vaudevillian than legislative. It helps the new Senators become acclimated. This session there are only four newly-elected ones: Arthur R. Gould of Maine, Republican, 6 ft. 2 in., healthy and 70; Harry B. Hawes of Missouri, Democrat, able fisherman and breeder of pedigreed hogs; David W. Stewart of Iowa, Republican, onetime Marine, portly, bald and 41; David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Democrat, bachelor, with a deep, rich voice (he had been in the Senate before...
...work out. This play is something for every editor of a respectable dramatic column to worry about. Osgood Perkins, who scored so high as the very wisecracker in Loose Ankles, now takes over the perturbations of Professor Paolina with equal success. Carlotta Irwin, the harassed Mrs. Petella, is to laugh (heartily). In fact, the whole show is a riot far more entertaining than contemporary night clubs...
...moment is he serious, even inadvertently. He sometimes fails also to be funny, but not for lack of trying. It is that straining for effect that is Mr. Sullivan's chief fault. We are led to feel that the author is trying very, very hard to make us laugh; and we are inclined to be annoyed that he should deem such excessive efforts necessary
...high spirits. . . . Although it was a day of brilliant sunshine, the curtains were drawn, and the room lighted by many tall candles. Aubrey Beardsley, clad in a yellow dressing gown, and wearing red slippers turned up at the toes, was working. As I entered he waved, laughed his gay laugh, then coughed horribly...
...Arty" art has fallen into disrepute. In these days even such decorative sophisticates as Max Beerbohm steal their stencils from humanity. Aubrey Beardsley, before he died, ceased to laugh quite so gayly or wave so wildly. He joined the Roman Catholic Church and begged that all his bad and, above all, his obscene drawings, should be destroyed. " 'Fourmi!' quoted a biographer, ' n'insulte pas ces divines cigales...