Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deputy Jacques Louis Dumesnil secured the only really hearty laugh of the week by shouting: "What difference does all this talk about taxes make? In England a gentleman who does not pay his quota to the State is looked down upon and his former friends will not shake his hand. In France we never rest until the man who dodges has told us how he does...
...write it, but from the looks of things she had a lot to do with the rewriting. The farce has all the old tricks you can think of and here and there a new one. It is so synthetic, so obviously manufactured for the easy laugh, that the testy old critics did not like it. Neither did they like Abie's Irish Rose, which has now played some 1,500 consecutive performances in Manhattan. The plot is about a young boy, the girl he loved and the girl's mother, who did not think they were old enough...
...Locarno Pacts when they were presented for ratification last week: "To the false democracy of bourgeois governments which met at Locarno, we Communists oppose the desire for peace of Soviet Russia, which is the only country in the world willing and ready to discuss the question of disarmament. . . . I laugh with those who laugh at Locarno!" While Signor Maffii "laughed," the Chamber ratified the Pacts by a solid Fascist vote, with the Aventine Opposition absent (TIME, Jan. 25) and only two Communists daring to vote contra-Locarno...
...benefit, one of the few who died. For years Professor Leacock had watched his wife dying; had watched come over her the pallor and emaciation of brave suffering. But a public had come to like and demand his witticisms, stimulated by his uproarious Literary Lapses of 1910. Fifteen other laugh-provoking books he wrote* perforce, many of them as his wife failed. The public knew not his private life; demanded laughs; got them. Last week he let it be known that he would devote his fortune and his writing ability to forwarding a strenuous campaign for research in cancer...
...Weaver's "Black Valley," that interesting novel of missionary life in Japan, the author draws a character not too unlike the maligned minister in "Rain" But he doesn't call him a Baptist. He might even be a Methodist or a--So you won't be able to laugh at his Baptistisms. Yet you might read the book anyway. It does not approach Forster's "Passage to India," but it is a very satisfying treatment of an unknown, if narrow, field...