Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alas! The earnest zeal of the Fascists is too youthful. The whole world may not fall down and worship. Some may deny the articles of its faith, a few may even laugh. At all events, here is new panacea ready to compete with the Muscovite tonic-sellers for the international dope market...
Forty Winks. The increasing tendency to light comedy among the leading companies is a fortunate sign. One does not sit down and write that light comedies are everlasting entertainment. They do not try to be. They are just light comedies to make you laugh. Forty Winks decidedly is and does. There is a mock melodramatic plot about stolen papers and government intrigue. Raymond Griffith is excellent in the "Cheerio" type of London leading...
...period of his speech, he said : "We have unanimously decided that the form of the German State is not to be altered." (Loud, ironical laughter.) Continued the Chancellor: "This matter is really too serious for me to adopt the standpoint of those who laugh about...
...understands the implication of that famed formula, I am. His writing is a gallery of many mirrors, variously awry, each reflecting the pale and sharply smiling image of the weariest young man of a too brilliant century?a young man who beholds with urbane derision his many reflections, and laughs for the pleasure of seeing his laugh contorted from glass to glass...
...Last Laugh. The first of the German Ufa films has come at last. With Emil Jannings in the part, it tells the simple story of a hotel door- keeper who is dismissed because of old age. He dies of disappointment in the hotel lavatory and is abruptly brought to life in a regular Hollywood honey ending. The economy of effect, the brilliant play of detail, the simplicity make it a text book to U. S. directors. Unfortunately, even the performance of Herr Jannings cannot make the kindly character tragedy of deep dramatic interest...