Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever and whenever democracy really goes to town, laughter that betrays nobody and expresses all will be a commonplace accomplishment. Fore-echoes of such laughter can occasionally be heard in the light verse of Thomas Temple Hoyne (TIME, Jan. 1, 1940), David McCord and Ogden Nash...
...Kendrick Bangs, who died in 1922, was a humorist, a lecturer, an editor, a critic, a librettist, a politician-and successful as all six. Lillian Russell played in his chipper Gilbertian revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded...
town. As a man he set down what he saw with simplicity, truth and understanding in a series of great short stories - Winesburg, Ohio; The Triumph of the Egg; Horses and Men, and half-great novels -Windy McPherson's Son; Poor White; Dark Laughter. No first-rate U. S. writer since Walt Whitman has spent so much time just sitting and listening to people talk-drummers, race-track touts, rivermen, politicos, farmers, railroaders, tramps, trulls and small-town merchants. Since Whitman stood ";there in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim," few U. S. writers have been...
...bloomed again. And the Shuberts' latest edition of this old dependable lacks little of the sure-fire appeal with which it has warmed up staid Bostonians seven times in the last twenty years. The colorful costumes, glittering jewelry, chic frock coats and top hats, tinkling wine glasses and gay laughter are all there--set to melodies the world hasn't forgotten in 120 years, and isn't likely to in another thousand...
Died. Sherwood Anderson, 64, Ohio businessman who walked down the bed of a river, out of a successful paint business, into a vivid, dreamed world of his own, in describing which (Winesburg, Ohio; Poor White; Dark Laughter) he became for a time (roughly, the '205) one of America's great storytellers; in a Colon, Canal Zone hospital, whither he had been taken ailing with peritonitis from his South America-bound ship (TIME, March...