Word: mirth
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...anthology of Italian newsreel shots released in the U. S. last week as a feature picture, has gone much extremely dim, blurry photography, but Il Duce comes to life, especially his face. Even Italians who sang Fascist anthems and cheered the preview in Manhattan last week, rocked with mirth at the Premier's rubbery platform face...
...TIME is here adding another legend to the already voluminous apocrypha of Chapel Hill. Of course the epithet "Damyankee" is occasionally applied with facetious intent to one or another of the faculty, both by Northerners and by Southerners, but the idea of forming an organization along these lines excites mirth...
...Soon the safely married Gilda succumbs to their witty charms, and when the art broker-husband returns from Chicago he is told that the three will resume their private offensive against the social code. While he expostulates against the madness of this incorrigible trio they slap their thighs with mirth. The curtain falls, the play having evidently solved all but the practical difficulty of how Gilda, Leo and Otto can roll in the hay simultaneously...
...more comical than representative. But somehow it is hard to visualize the bright young men of New Haven and Cambridge assuming to any very great degree the dramatic attitudes of Hollywood, even in its more turtle-necked moments. Screen commonplaces unblushingly uttered by collegians on location would evoke inextinguishable mirth at Soldiers Field or in the precincts of Connecticut Hall, and the degree to which jealous shootings, passionate romances, Minerva motor cars and the abduction of football players figure in real college life is still a little below the requirements of most film directors...
...lived in France since 1906, her books have been stanchly U. S. products, except for a pro-French interlude during the War. By her juniors she is rated respectfully as an old lady writer of surprising youth, surprising up-to-date notions. Among her many books: The House of Mirth, Old New York, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, Twilight Sleep, Hudson River Bracketed...