Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned big things for them, claimed a whopping success even as its airborne men were being killed. But U.S. troops wasted little time laughing at the ill-conceived attack, the funny English of the captured documents. In the Pacific the Japs were still not a subject for sustained laughter...
...queer looking instruments to the note A from a piano. Then they played some of the eeriest, sweetest, funniest, saddest, sourest and most heavenly music ever heard. The first concert of the sextet of emiritons roused occasional flutters of approval and once in a while a great burst of laughter. Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven never batted...
...means without interest and a certain charm. Dr. Morton (Joel McCrea) is Sturges' least caricatured, most straightforwardly sympathetic hero to date. Some of the comedy, supplied chiefly and expertly by William Demarest (the picture is reduced largely to its comic episodes), is funny if you can enjoy laughter in contexts of physical misery. Some of the drama, supplied by McCrea, by Louis Jean Heidt as Horace Wells (who discovered the anesthetic possibilities of laughing gas) and by Harry Carey as Dr. Warren (who first used anesthesia for surgery), is firm, humane and moving...
...went to his sister's house. Before entering, he automatically tried to straighten his tie. As he did so, he suddenly realized how he looked-a matted beard, ragged clothes that a peasant had given him, the accumulated dirt of battle, retreat, prison. He burst into hysterical laughter. He went into the house to find that while his sister knew him, he scarcely knew her. Her husband had been arrested, tortured, shot...
...Philosophy. But all is not laughter with Elsa, who claims she is really two people. Her other self is intensely "interested in profound philosophy " and feels that through her column she can bring an understanding of authors like Rousseau, Freud, Lao-Tse, and Tolstoy to many people who might never otherwise get to know them. In the same way, she declares, her parties are really organized to bring intellects together in an informal atmosphere. She is proud of having invented such games as Treasure Hunt and Scavenger Hunt, because of their psychological importance. Not unmindful of science (she once devoted...