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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan film studio a surge of flame swashed across the wooden roof, turned the barnlike building into a man broiler. Within a half-hour ten crushed, charred bodies, including four pretty girls, were laid out on the street below a blackened sign: PATHE TALKING COMEDIES MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Pathetique | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Hoover conference I promised to do my share by keeping the country in good humor until the big corporations buy crutches for the crippled stocks. Every day beginning Monday I promise you one good laugh "Yours until my yacht catches on fire." Excerpts from his first syndicated crack: "If you are interested in the market you will notice that stocks are coming back. Yes, sir, they're coming back-but not to their original owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newscracker | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...director of "Love, Live and Laugh", the present offering at the Keith-Albee, is one whose work we should like to see more often. In a movie whose plot depends upon the now rather shopworn world war, he has built up a suspense altogether foreign to most movies of today and managed with rare ability to sustain interest to the end. So far have the age-old strictures of producers been disregarded that the picture is actually allowed to close with the hero thwarted in his attempt to win the woman he loves. The rest of the plot has features...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Although there is nothing billed as a "short comedy", the Dramatic Club's advertisement for "Success" is acceptable for a few moments of fun. What with "Talented Miss So-and-so". "Charming Miss This-and-that", and the rest of the teaser, we were given a hearty laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO GOOD PICTURES AT THE UNIVERSITY | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...makes the scoop of years by filching the famous Yale fence, just when Princeton begins to feel a little sorry about it all, a few men destroy everything. Not that most of us haven't felt justified, from time to time, in having a bootlegger apprehended, but we somehow laugh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/10/1929 | See Source »

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