Word: laughingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lenore Jensen grew up surrounded by sureshot kin, practiced marksmanship as a tot. "When Lenore was two," recalls her mother, "she carried a toy rifle around with her. She'd sprawl out on the living room floor, and people would laugh and say, 'Look at that. Perfect prone position.' " Her father, who died when Lenore was eleven, was a topflight competitive marksman; her mother has been firing smallbore rifles for 24 years, last year won the National Women's Any Sight Championship. Stepfather Marvin Driver is a crack pistol shot and longtime director of the National...
...Hotel (which also appeared as a short novel), the author says that Rodgers and Hammerstein might have liked it, but Joshua Logan nixed the project. Logan must have been wrong, suggests O'Hara, because a stock-company production of the play moved the Fishkill, N.Y., Rotary Club to laugh, cry and call for the author. Later, "a prominent playwright" became interested, "but he wanted to rewrite the play and I did not want to reveal to him that it is an allegory, very tightly written...
Charlie Chaplin once explained: "When I walk right up and slap a grand lady because she gave me a contemptuous look, it is really right. -They won't admit it, but it's right, and that is why they laugh. I make them conscious of the reality of life. 'You think this is it, don't you?' I say. 'Well, it isn't, but this is-see?' And then they laugh...
...that the solution of present difficulties can come from unilateral action. The [Western] will to negotiate must not be mistaken for weakness." At some point amidst the amiability and the inability to reach every agreement, Khrushchev broke out in one of his flights of rocket rhetoric. "Technicians make me laugh," he said, "when they argue over the question of whether five or maybe six rockets armed with thermonuclear warheads might be needed to demolish Great Britain. We have at least twelve already pointed at that target." And then, looking at his guest, Khrushchev remarked that Italy, with its allied missile...
...just the sort of thinkproof entertainment that gamblers crave. The trio specializes in old standards (Heartaches, And the Angels Sing), and as an extra fail-safe against boredom, Frankie Ross often makes joking commentaries on the lyrics. His gags may not be immortal but usually get a laugh from someone who has just put his 459th consecutive nickel into a slot and is ready for anything. Ross also does a take-off on Baby, It's Cold Outside, turning himself into a jivey simulacrum of a Chicago mobster. In a rococo version of Ebbtide, the whole group does everything...