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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like Myself." It is a plea from a driven, riven man-although outwardly Williams does not seem that way. He has ready good humor and an explosive laugh. His drawl is as smooth as the good bourbon with which it is usually enriched. He stands 5 ft. 6 in., weighs 155 lbs., and like most Americans worries about his weight. He is darkly good-looking, and might in another era have passed for a Mississippi riverboat gambler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...funnies, those staples of the daily press, were invented some 60 years ago to make people laugh-or at least chuckle. But where are the pratfalls, "Pows!" and "Kerflooies!" of yesteryear? Some comic-strip artists, recalling a simpler era, still let their cartoon creatures play it for laughs. But a growing number of characters in the funnies are much too busy for such nonsense. They are earnestly fighting the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Comic Battlefront | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

There was no question about Brown's fondness for spirits. He usually reeked of them and was frequently drunk. Drunk or sober, he treated Victoria with brusque rudeness, and the Queen was apparently amused. She would laugh delightedly at his crudities and expect her horrified courtiers to do the same. One of her great delights were the Chillies' Balls, at which Victoria and Brown would prance and dance wildly together. "What a coarse animal that Brown is," said Lord Cairns, the Lord Chancellor, to the Queen's secretary, Henry Ponsonby. "I daresay the Chillies' Ball could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Study in Black & Brown | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Lover Corne Back. Stanley Shapiro, one of Hollywood's more competent make-'em-laugh-till-they-gag men, has served up a grand old turkey of a plot-the mistaken-identity bit-and has stuffed it with giggles. Dessert: a couple of cream puffs called Rock Hudson and Doris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Among Broadway's long-run tenants, Mary. Mary incites full houses to laugh along with Playwright Jean Kerr; Camelot's Round Table is becoming as durable as King Arthur's-and there is always the grande dame of Manhattan's musicals. My Fair Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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