Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confirmed the Government's firm intention to examine in a spirit of equity any serious proposals addressed to it directly by the German Government. Answering interpellations from the Left in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Poincaré remarked: "It is odious to attribute to France designs of annexation! [Laughter from the Radicals.] We went into the Ruhr to get reparations and for no other reason. We will leave the Ruhr when Germany pays, not before!" Germany. Chancellor Cuno has expressed Germany's willingness to negotiate with the French as soon as definite promises have been given that...
...another one. There are also a few clearly indicated wheezes. They would be funnier in Russian. Lennox Pawle is really comic as a stage Briton. Kenneth Macgowan: ". . . John Murray Anderson's loveliest production." Alexander Woollcott: ". . . Good looks . . . 100; music . . . 50-50; gayety . . . 4." Heywood Broun: ". . . pretty, but laughter has been largely omit- ted." The Love Set. The comic burglar who turns out to be the girl's father is not as bad as the rest...
...inductive recreation of Purcell's instrumentation, such as may be determined from a study of the few scraps that remain of orchestra scores of that remote composer's other works. Bodanzky is, at the same time, the gayest and j oiliest of companions, who gives huge laughter to comic tales and sits like a great paladin to watch a game of cards. The metropolis is to have another symphony orchestra. The conductor will be Mr. Stransky. The organization will be on a democratic, coop- erative basis. It is this last phase which arouses the human heart. Certainly democracy...
Playgoers really care very little what the play does to them, as long as it does something. They do not restrict their demands to laughter and tears. Almost equally ecstatic heights are reached by those seeking a vicarious nobility in the person of Pasteur, or luxuriating in the terrors of The Last Warning or Whispering Wires, or thrilling with the sensation of an unaccustomed conversational brilliance with You and I or The Laughing Lady...
...American innocent abroad has long been the butt of foreign laughter and scorn. In fact foreigners, from Charles Dickens to Lady Asquith, have journeyed even to our own front stoop to voice all manner of criticisms, the burden of which has ever been that "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers". "Little", they tell us, "do we see in art which is ours...