Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began to collect babies. An attempt to break the will and prove her incompetent was launched by attorneys of a disinherited son. The plaintive appeal of Mary Carr makes her a good Drusilla; Most of the babies are good actors. The film makes a big play for laughter and tears and gets a moderate return...
...student marched in wearing the bronze fig leaf around his neck. He made a statue Venus, "an arrangement of planes and curves," also heroic -10 or 12 ft. high. It was exhibited in the Leicester Galleries, London, and for weeks people gathered in front of it and roared with laughter. In 1920, at the same galleries, he exhibited a statue called The Risen Christ. A well-known British cleric exclaimed: "I call it positively wicked and insulting to perpetrate such a travesty." Said Mr. Epstein: "The figure I have produced appeals to me as one of infinite pity, looking upon...
...dead. Even a chapel would be a useful monument, on the door of which posterity might well read, "Dedicated with One Eye on the Memory of the Harvard Dead, and other on the Seating Requirements of the Harvard Living." Such a memorial would lose its sacred majesty amid the laughter of men who no longer believe in the pragmatic philosophy, "It's good if it works...
...song that flashed over the dark orchestration like a silver simitar. Another voice was also audible. Through the cadences of Wagner's music, the brandished curve of Olzewska's voice, it issued from the wings, rising and falling in charming periods, punctuated with little ripples of laughter, like :he voice of a woman telling a funny story...
...with two original jokes against Scotsmen every day of the week. He did it, and that is the reason why the Labor Government was so successful." At that moment, an Englishman, who somehow or other had lost his bearings, remarked: "It must have been a lugubrious job." (Loud laughter...