Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rooney glutton. His satire, which was immensely successful in Europe, is sophisticated and sentimental; it is probable that even the most hardened plutocrat who watches the unfolding of the myth will feel less shamed than delighted when the young lovers, scorning a rich villain's bribe, exit with laughter and on horseback...
When Anne India had accomplished this much of her purpose, she was privileged one summer night to discover Rex sprawled like an inksplotch on the moon-white ground. Around him were empty bottles. From the shadows came uncouth sounds of snoring, soggy laughter, foolish crying. The villagers were still debauching; but Rex was dead...
...Knock. There are those theatregoers who wince when they see, propped up on the stage, a cardboard automobile. To them, this frail vehicle is a symbol for many estimable qualities of stage technique-loud clowning, eccentric costuming, futuristic scenery, boisterous laughter from the actors on the stage-which they, in hypersensitive hauteur, sometimes distrust. As soon as the curtain rose on Jules Remain's "intellectual farce," in France already a minor classic, they knew what to expect. Had usually able Director Richard Boleslavsky made it seem less like a pillow fight, they would have been delighted with this bumptious...
...narrator himself joined in the laughter, as the poet turned to the man from Arkansas, and chuckled...
...both countries will inevitably be found. . . ." Unable to attend the official luncheon of welcome, former Ambassador to the U. S. Jules Jusserand sent a message: "Should the President attempt to remove Mr. Herrick from the Paris post, treaties or no, France will declare war on the United States forthwith." Laughter...