Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness of an ass. The American is subjected to mental torture. But just as Mr. Crispin, drawing on a surgeon's blouse, is about to consummate his fiendish plans for the Englishman, the American and the girl, the three dumb Japs, squealing laughter from tongueless mouths, have their own revenge. This is the last scene and is the most thrilling in a season which has tried very hard to provide thrills. Edward G. Robinson (Mr. Crispin) and his Garrick Players did well...
...regards as a disappointment in his strikingly successful life? Well, it is really one of his disappointments that he seems to have failed to qualify as a humorist. He envies humorists-those who have the power to bring into the hearts of men the gods' good gift of laughter...
Most political predictions are met with hearty laughter by the Other Side, but Mr. Raskob was answered with jeers and booes for concluding his prediction with the following statement: "This leaves States with 184 votes, every one of which is fighting ground, and there is good indication that the Democratic ticket will corral over 100 of these...
...Miss Savidge testified before the Extraordinary Tribunal, appraising reporters scribbled: "pretty . . . dressed in black with canary colored ribbons at her throat . . . light brown hair . . . pink-and-white complexion . . . looked like a schoolgirl of sixteen . . . slight cockney accent . . . provoked laughter with some of her naive replies, but she herself did not laugh . . . thanked the usher when she handed her a glass of water and smelling salts ... sat playing with the stopper as counsel continued their questions...
...tremendous enjoyment, at the end of the eleventh day. At the end of the twelfth, one team married, in a ceremony that was held on the dance floor. The colored preacher, the Rev. S. W. Wigfall, solemn and embarrassed, a good man if somewhat stupid, was grossly insulted by laughter throughout his reading of the service. Bernard Paul, aquiline, and Amelia Hallbach, spade-faced, were the participants in the wedding. The master of ceremonies, best man and judge of dancers was impudent Bill Robinson, "the finest tap-dancer in the world." He strutted and clowned continuously, while bowing to friends...