Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointments begin. Lunch is a conference over desk trays. The President is not skillful with his hands: they fumble with papers, with spectacles; the wood matches he uses often break under his heavy fingers. When he appears casual, easy, charming, his hands are still. He likes to laugh, even these days -a delighted roar that shakes him up & down-and still in the hoarded minutes of his day finds time to write lusty wisecracks in memos to his aides; to think up little gags to spring on his press conferences...
...designer of the Ford exhibit, Walter Dorwin Teague, who had no difficulty selling it to Edsel Ford. The ballet was written-it has songs and dialogue-by Edward Mabley of the Teague organization, who never once forgot that two men impersonating a horse are always good for a laugh. A Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan...
...horse-laugh...
Cagney: As the capstone to Warners' build-up of Ann Sheridan, the fade-out required Cagney to observe: "You and your 14-carat oomph!" When Cinemactor Cagney protested the line, Producer Mark Hellinger bet him $100 that audiences would give the gag the loudest laugh of the film. A few days after the preview, Producer Hellinger found Cagney's check for $100 in the mail...
...German refugees giving military orders in a hospital." It was chivalrous of Mickey to try to protect Cambridge Hospital from Fifth-column assault. Nevertheless, one might perhaps warn him that his grounds are nil, his arguments flabby, and his mode of expression calculated to draw nothing but the horse-laugh...