Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lincoln C. Andrews and Wayne B. Wheeler, the paid advocate of the Anti-Saloon League, say that Prohibition is here to stay whether the Wets like it or not. "And what is more," said General Andrews, "it will be hard to get a drink of real beer next season." Laughter and boos from respectable citizens greeted this pronouncement; General Andrews was forced to cut short his speech...
...French statesmen vanquish their weight by their vivacity. When Foreign Minister Briand of France lights his inevitable cigaret, chats with it bobbing between his lips and winks now and then a twinkling eye, then his fat is forgotten and the lines of care upon his face seem laughter's wrinkles. Last week he welcomed at Paris his good and amiably-intentioned friend, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary, whose back is like a ramrod and whose monocle is more than glacial. Cordial greetings passed between them. Soon they sat down to discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy...
...conscious of its own glitter. The audience is aware that actors settle themselves, preen themselves, for the utterance of shining platitudes, universal conversation in the pseudo-Voltairian manner. Ethel Barrymore's acting is the stage Ethel of recent years, to which an Ethel-drawn audience responds with laughter, palpably content. Percy Hammond: "Miss Barrymore . . . slender, fair, 36 and super-charming...
From the moment when this throw back to the Eighteenth Century begins to send laughter into the happy hearts of the better Bostonians to that sudden descent of the curtain which ends the show there in no time when anyone dares to remember that he paid so and so for his ticket. Perhaps Mr. Leo Bulgakov of the Moscow Art Theatre is doing better justice to Gozzi at the Provincetown than could ever be done on the shores of Brattle, but Stark Young would have to admit that this is an improvement over "Brown of Harvard"-with all due justice...
...time than as an experiment in a new form. Yet there is evident in "L'Avare", a probably unconscious moving to a form of comedy different from the classical; toward a more modern form which does not exclude pathos or even a bit of tragedy but mingles tears with laughter. In fact wherever, as in this play, the study of a character--even a character in a comedy--becomes profound, it tends to become drama...