Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adriano Theatre in Rome the Blackshirts roared. First they roared with laughter. Then with anger. Then with exultation...
...chorus girl doing the bumps), 150,000 pounds of ice have been dumped in the laps of the audience, 150,000 rounds of blank ammunition have been fired from 22 revolvers, Hellzapoppers Olsen & Johnson have changed costumes 60,000 times, a laughmeter has recorded 510,000 gales of laughter. The attendance record is held by Radio Announcer Graham McNamee, who has seen the funnybusiness 17 times...
...wrote to one of the papers urging the erection of a monument to "Goebbels' Unknown Cow." After German airplanes and anti-aircraft batteries had worked over The Netherlands for two hours to bring down a runaway British barrage balloon, somebody cracked: "The poor thing finally burst from laughter...
...that he doesn't have his troubles building "Elmer" into something more than a story from "American Boy Magazine." Ring Lardner has offered little more than an obvious plot and some run-of-the-mill dialogue. But Joe isn't interested in laughter of the mind. His purpose, stated in a beautiful little speech after the last curtain, is to hit the audience around the heart. "Elmer The Great" may be a simple play about simple people but it is fine refreshment in a troubled world...
...judging by Monday night's sprinkled and hesitant laughter. In fact, the whole attitude of the audience today seems far too polite for a playwright used to the bantering of the "pit." The Elizabethan wits must have lambasted Malvolio as enthusiastically as the later 19th Century hissed the villain. His first appearance bedecked with yellow garters probably unloosed a storm of mirth and ridicule. A little more of this boisterousness would be a welcome addition...