Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English are brothers,' he said. He thrust out two fingers of one hand and one of the other, brought them together and continued: The Alleman [Germans] and Russ are the enemy. We brothers are a big wall together. Alleman kaput!' "The crowd around him roared with laughter at 'Alleman kaput,' signifying Germany would be beaten...
Occasional laugh. But it is uneasy laughter. For the wicked old lady is seen debauching her young granddaughter (Joan Carroll), trying to debauch her teen-age granddaughter, Ellie May (Ginger Rogers). Their mother (Marjorie Rambeau) has become a wistful and underpaid trull, the sole support of her family and her gin-drinking scholar husband (Miles Man-der). Ellie May, a pig-tailed slum Diana, is barely saved from her mother's fate by Joel McCrea as she is racing (in a big car with her mother's ex-boy friend) toward San Francisco...
...sound of his father's humiliated laughter, in fear for his job, robbed the child of confidence. His feminist mother, in her efforts not to be possessive, involved herself in local education and professional good works; he soon realized she was unfit to be trusted. He continued to worship his father for years: but all his father perceived in his diffidence was aversion and stupidity about which, in his son's hearing, he ruefully made jokes. Pathetic Cousin Ella so blackmailed him for pity that it was impossible to pity her. Full-blooded Uncle Ernest, by horning...
Then came the terms, and despair. The parties were canceled, the laughter ceased. A horrible realization fell like a blanket of wet snow on the three countries: not only was Finland defeated; her neighbors were threatened within an inch of their lives...
...Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Monstro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hairbrushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad. Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a twentieth-century, streamlined job--this "Pinochio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none of its genial moralizing...