Word: mirth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months, that women should learn "to abandon a dress when it is used up and not when it becomes unfashionable." Prime mover in this audacious campaign is brush-haired, portly Dr. Robert Ley (pronounced Lie), Labor Front Leader whose tirades against alcohol, nicotine and debauchery have long excited the mirth of knowing Nazis who recall his bibulous "Strength Through Joy" trip accompanied by bevies of blooming beauties. Opening a "House for the Care of Beauty" in Berlin recently, Dr. Ley, whose wife is no dowdy, damned fashions because they waste materials, "which is not in the least in accordance with...
...Snow White first met last June when the latter came to Harvard to receive an honorary degree. The citation read: "Walter Elias Disney, a magician who has created a modern dwelling for the muses; his hand controls a multitude of elfin animals who charm all humans by their mirth...
There's Always a Woman (Columbia) builds up around rambunctious, banjo-eyed Joan Blondell a strong case for more blondes in the detective business. Skidding along on her intuition through a mystery that has as much mirth as murder, Private Detective Blondell bumps pertly from clue to clue, lands on the solution while the police and her sleuthing cinema husband (Melvyn Douglas) are still fumbling around...
...star upon whose purse strings depends a chiseling family. Unbidden to the rescue leaps Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., a well-intentioned masher with a way of laughing the law's locksmiths out of doing their sworn duty. The result for the first few reels is bright, well-ordered mirth from the gag-laden pens of Scenarists Gene Towne, Graham Baker and Allan Scott. But when the pens run dry, the authors resort to paleo-Chaplin antics like beery hiccups, pratfalls in a skating rink. Catchiest Jerome Kern tune: You Couldn't Be Cuter...
...editors of Punch, meanwhile, came out with what was intended to be a side-splitting full-page article calculated to impress the English mind with a notion that Czechoslovakia is a funny name, that even the fate of Czechoslovakia is not far from an affair for English mirth, and that as for an Englishman taking up arms to fight for Czechoslovakia-well that, implies Punch, is a simply hilarious idea...