Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second as " The big laugh and how the Woolly Horse fooled 'em," in his Autobiography. Each year Barnum added an appendix to the story of his life, that the public might keep itself up-to-date with his puns and practical jokes...
However, when our journalistic art comes of age (which there are signs that it is already beginning to do) it will no doubt take an entirely different form from that of France. French cartoons tend to make the observer wince or smile, the American to make him laugh or frown. Forain is of the first type of French cartoonist; sombre, mordant, much wit and little humor...
...Chapman completes her sketch in the first chapter. The rest of the book is predictable. But on she goes, stabbing her victims with repeated thrusts of her vindictive hatpin. Not that it isn't a sympathetic picture. You feel sorry for Mr. Pinney, bristling and blustering, with his eawing laugh and his spoon cracking in the mustache cup and his pocket comb and his self-inflated pride and obtrusive optimism...
POLLY PREFERRED?Genevieve Tobin appears in a comedy with a perfect first act. A go-getter, finding a pretty girl stranded in the Automat, makes a movie star and eventually a wife out of her. A burlesque director furnishes many a laugh...
Calvin Coolidge: " I was present at the annual gathering of The Dutch Treat Club at the Waldorf-Astoria. They gave a show about Sex and Mr. Sumner that came within an inch of making me laugh...