Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?A blazing satire on the Babbitt family, that yet extorts laughter from such successful morons themselves...
Justice is blind; justice is stern-perhaps it is thus in other lands. In the U. S., however, the Chief Justice has laughter in his eye and kindness in his heart. His decisions are the law of the land, but his proportions are its admiration. He is a very substantial answer to the aphorism that nobody loves...
...latter state, moved that the privileges of the Convention be accorded to Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton of Michigan to nominate the candidate of Massachusetts. Mr. Mondell put the motion: "The privileges of the Convention to Dr. Burton to nominate President Coolidge." There was a gust of laughter at this slip, covered up by a perfunctory chorus of "Ayes...
...from this claim the wigs I wear in my stage impersonations." ... "I love movement, and am capable of turning a few hand springs in the strict privacy of my drawing-room, an accomplishment probably not included in every prima donna repertoire. It always rouses my friends to shrieks of laughter to see me do this, but thus far I have found none of them able to follow my lead." "Wearing the knee breeches of Octavian (a boy's part in Der Rosenkavalier) as they should be worn, worried me ... I am the farthest removed from being 'mannish...
...SHOW-OFF?One of the best comedies of this or any other season, making braggadocio more endurable with laughter...