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...Yesterday" and his other movie appearance in "A Letter to Three Wives," is the tobacco-chewing, hardheaded, soft-hearted, Ring Lardner ball player who wisecracks at the umpire during business hours and spends the rest of the day keeping his irascible pitcher in tow. One of the picture's funniest scenes comes when he uses some of the magic lotion for hair tonic and finds that he can't smooth his hair with a wooden hair brush...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: It Happens Every Spring | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...well-draped suit. In his job as hasher, he can toss up crepes Belvedere or lecture the young women of the sorority on table manners. At the piano in the sorority parlor, he can play Beethoven or boogie, but he prefers the works of Belvedere. His biggest, and perhaps funniest, moment comes at the Freshman-Sophomore track-meet when he lays aside his dog-eared book, rolls his well-creased trousers above his knobbly knees and stalks out on the field to win the pole vault and a freshman victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...wrote a Ph.D. thesis entitled "A Study of Prayer from the Standpoint of Social Psychology." After arguing her thesis with the faculty, she ran out into the darkness and "threw a kiss to the stars. 'Your loveliness,' I cried, 'I've been proving the funniest things about you. I hope you enjoyed that nice debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Sentimental Journey | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Long ago, someone said that Beatrice Lillie was the funniest woman on the English-speaking stage. This rather sweeping pronouncement has never been challenged and, indeed, could here be extended to "the funniest woman in the world" but for this writer's early memory of a great uncle who, after a few drinks, was given to recalling in glorious terms a little entertainer in Kenya who was once very funny with her Swahili monologues. In case this worthy woman is still alive, and out of respect to my uncle, I'll only go so far as to say that there...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

...custom found its way to England, where the versatile William Shakespeare saw fit to burlesque it. From the lips of the mad Ophelia in Hamlet, Act IV, Scene v, comes probably both the funniest and most ribald Valentine messaged over cooed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prim Valentine's Day Faces College, but Romans Reveled | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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