Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subjects into that deep pseudo-sleep. (Hypnosis is closely related to but not the same as sleep.) Automatic handwriting, mediumistic speech and the like phenomena of spiritualism can be rationally explained as exhibits of hypnotism. Stage magicians put their victims through all sorts of antics for the laughter and admiration of audiences.** Consequently U. S. people, even though they might know the value of hypnotism in sickness, fear causing the ridiculous or mischievous while under the suggestor's spell. They fear also that the skillful will to which they might submit themselves might make them perform unwonted acts after...
...music. A bevy of not so weatherbeaten song and dance men; a pretty prima donna; dauntless officers; and a team of Mexican dancers pick their way melodiously through the onetime thunderous plot. Fair music, fairer chorus girls scarcely compensate for a deadly lack of laughter...
...BROADWAY-Laughter behind a night club's scenes; life lived at the point...
...lingerie, laughter, lullabies: The Mikado, Chauve-Souris, A Night in Spain, Good News, Manhattan Mary, Hit the Deck...
...unfortunate head. He is, after all, only fulfilling his election promise--to keep Chicago from the clutches of King George--and it is time that some of the ridicule descended on the voters of America's second city who elected him on such a basis. If widespread and uncharitable laughter pursues a town already famous for the antics of gunmen, the blame lies more with its citizens than wit hits Mayor, who is after all only their representative; and if Chicagoans weary of being told to make their city streets safe for Americans before bothering themselves about the British menace...