Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CLYDE N. LAUGHTER Evanston...
...York Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
...Character, Master of the Repartee, take off. Your everloving public, or is it private, looks expectant. Pretty drunk out last night. wasn't it gents! Laughter from everybody-everybody except the High Forehead. Never had so much fun with my clothes on, though. Loud guffaws while to find out his name sometimes, the Vag thought, the High Forehead turned back to his pie. Ought Might be fairly intelligent. Vag looked at his damp, new cold potate, remembering the story he had told yesterday-of a B plus in a course he hadn't been to three weeks. The admiring smiles...
...felt himself slipping lower and lower for catch pharses. Is it worth the effort? He got an idea. A game. See how stupid a remark can be and still get laughter. He waved a lamb chop at them. I'll tell you, this food is strictly from hunger. No belly laughs but plenty of snickers, Vag noted, amused himself for the first time...
...People are ungrateful to the ones who make them laugh," observed Producer René Clair, cinema specialist in laughter-&-tears. "They are grateful to the ones who make them cry. The idea of beauty is associated with tears...