Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Keep It Clean. It has become customary in revues to have a comedian wittily announce the scenes in advance. If he predicts that they will be stupid, the audience may laugh. But if they are stupid, the audience not only will not laugh, but will think ugly things about the comedian. Such is Impresario Will Morrissey's plight in Keep It Clean. He suggests merrily that he will be unable to pay his cast and creditors. When his 'buffoons and minstrels have taken their dull turns, the audience is inclined to agree with him. Apart from a spry group...
...head of that imposture (presentation to the "future" Queen of France of Leon Daudet's royalists); after a royal hunt in which he stabs the stag and thrills all the ladies, Molinoff is discovered in his cook capacity by Françoise's family. A fatalist giving a dark, hollow laugh at his fate, Molinoff trundles off down the road, his back dwindling in the dust. null who sets off in hot pursuit on her bicycle, is downed by the wind, scrapes her pretty nose...
...week the market, encouraged by a $232,000,000 drop in loans to brokers, rallied somewhat and selling of the Durant stocks became less pronounced. Meanwhile Mr. Durant, cabled in distant Paris concerning his reported losses, replied: "These silly and unfounded rumors have given me a big laugh...
...Fairbanks stateroom with a message wishing the couple "a goose of a good time." Jo-Jo was not returned before train time. His owner grew worried, threatened to sue Jokester Grauman for $2,500. Jokester Grauman, flustered, wired Mr. Fairbanks at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "Hope you had a good laugh with the goose. Please ship him back immediately as he is Jo-Jo, the screen actor, and his owner wants him for picture work...
...made Secretary of Yale University in 1923, while he was still in law school. Then he said: "I get so sick of hearing that I am young. I wish that I would suddenly grow up and get baldheaded. People come into my office and when they see me they laugh. President Angell said in a speech that Yale had robbed the cradle to get a secretary, and I replied that I wanted every one to know that I had a birthday last week and am now 24 years...