Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number. The sudden meeting of the board yesterday morning at 7 o'clock was called for the sole purpose of informing the editors of the situation. Barred from the press, the assembled mob decided on one last practical joke and a parade, neither of which called forth any laughter...
...years ago these Independents had their first show. Having survived the cannonade of laughter that welcomed them, they proceeded, under the chaperonage of John Sloan, to exhibit year after year a freakish rout of paintings wilder than any parade of camels and elephants. The entire roof of the Waldorf is theirs to use; anyone who has painted anything can exhibit it there, and painters as remote from convention as sword-swallower, snake charmer, bearded ladies, send in their works-and are laughed at. And many of those who roused the stormiest guffaws ten years ago are now selling their canvases...
...Kelly does not strive for superficial humour; it is here out-of-place. Mirth ripples through the lines, but it is of the sort that provokes internal laughter and the delighted eye, not the yokel's guffaw. Whenever Mr. Kelly courts the latter, he fumbles. One cannot help but feel that on the opening night the dead flop of these lines must have caused him chagrin and that he may have learned a well-pointed lesson...
...Lenine. Famed anti-Communist fire-eater, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks (popularly known as "Jix") declared amid laughter, in answer to a question, that the widow of famed Bolshevist idol Lenine has applied for permission to end her days in England. Said the doughty "Jix," stiffly: "Such an application would be treated on its merits, if presented...
...experts opined that it might produce 2½ billion francs of added revenue, whereas at least 5 billions are necessary. The Senate Finance Committee's first act was to prune away some of its notorious "spoof" clauses (TIME, Feb. 15), mere legislative "nifties"?? not worthy of the Senators' laughter. The general impression was that the bill could scarcely be worse. But it was at least a bill! It was, in fact, a great triumph for M. Briand...