Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party lasted until 2 a.m., and the walls of Oslo's 13th Century Akershus Fortress reverberated with laughter and deep-throated Scandinavian singing. The guests -97 ministers, generals, diplomats and politicians of Sweden, Denmark and Norway-toasted each other and their countries. Gay as any was the host, Norway's Foreign Minister Halvard Lange. Yet in his pocket crackled a crisp piece of paper, a note from Soviet Russia. The Soviet ambassador had delivered it just as Lange was leaving for the state dinner...
...Letter to Three Wives. A trio of crises in the young married set, told with skill and knowing laughter, with Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern (TIME...
...Letter to Three Wives. A trio of crises in the young married set, told with skill and knowing laughter; with Paul Douglas, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern (TIME...
...Born Yesterday's liberalism without its laughter. It was the sour success story of a Supreme Court justice turned from flaming crusader into conforming stuffed shirt. As the justice, Otto Kruger seemed neither alive nor dead enough; while Ruth Gordon's mannered playing of the wife merely suggested that the justice had married an actress...
...Sitwell, who had journeyed a long way from her early preciosities. Her Song of the Cold contained some good war poetry. (It was a year in which America became Sitwell conscious, and the touring Sitwells discovered America. Osbert Sitwell sketched an acid portrait of his delightfully eccentric father in Laughter in the Next Room; Sacheverell, youngest of the literary family, celebrated the minor arts of peace in The Hunters and the Hunted...