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Word: slaphappiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Stan Laurel, 74, slim, sad-eyed master mime who with the late Oliver Hardy made some 300 of Hollywood's slaphappiest movies in the 1920s, '30s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A onetime London music hall comic, Laurel was the brain behind the gags and the on-screen butt of them all, the watery-eyed, squeaky-voiced noodlehead who caught Jean Harlow's dress in a car door in Double Whoopee and absorbed the custard pies in The Battle of the Century, spilled the paint, upset the ladders and destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 5, 1965 | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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