Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carry out this kind of research, and you can laugh at the rest of the medical profession, because they don't do any of this, either...
...sacred images. Cold drinks, tea and Burman spaghetti were served at marquees at almost every street corner and gay music sounded everywhere. Pious oldsters listened to the discourse of holy men, and everywhere the Burmese splashed one another with a will. "Yee-da-paw, yee-da-paw" (we laugh, we laugh), they cried through chattering teeth every time the chilling water hit them...
Strangely enough, the comedy sequences are funny in the same way that the Old Howard comics are funny. Observers laugh first because they can spot the gags upwards of a mile ahead of time, and second when they find they were right. This situation arises because Paramount has followed alarmingly closely (for Hollwood) the original Twain work. To be sure, they schmalzed up the beginning and end and threw in a little sledgehammer moralizing in the middle, but they kept their grubby paws off much of the Twain dialogue and all of the comedy situations...
...During the rehearsal, Fine, who was reading the work for the first time, made a mistake. Koussevitzky mistook his grimace for a smile and stopped the Orchestra. In the thick Russian accents which defy reproduction, the Conductor announced, "When we make a mistake in this Orchestra, we don't laugh; we weep!" Koussevitzky was so impressed with the epigram that after the rehearsal he called Fine to his room and repeated...
Said Editor Paul T. Busselle, who joined the Times 20 years ago and succeeded Townes: "I guess people are right when they laugh at me for calling it the 'news paper game.' It isn't a game any more, it's too much of a business...