Word: laughingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Liberty has increased much more rapidly than before." Liberty announced a $1,000 per week prize for the best answers to this question: "Are you Wet or Dry?" And last week Life, exhibiting some of the initiative by which for 40 years it has made citizens not only laugh but think, inaugurated a crusade for consummate shrewdness...
...domed, shaven head, piercing dark eyes in an oval face, a walrus mustache, bull neck, a paunch, huge muscles. He is unaccountable, unpredictable. A clever man, he acts sometimes like a lunatic, sometimes like a genius, sometimes like a child. He loves to laugh, apparently enjoys being angry...
...reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner's words of praise. Says Mencken: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing, but that time I did not laugh...
There are 18 scenes, between each of which Hall Johnson's magnificent Negro choir intones a spiritual. The all-Negro cast perform with a combination of spontaneity, vigor, and accomplished artistry which exemplifies the race at its dramatic best. You will laugh at the ebony, tinsel-winged Angel Gabriel and at many of his heavenly associates. Other things may well make you cry. In any event you will be overcome by a reverence which can only be construed as a tribute to fine art, if, indeed, it is not a manifestation of more inscrutable religious impulses...
...they entered upon a beer garden set, a chorus of 200 men and women about the tables rose to greet them with a tremendous song With Will Hays, Mary Pickford Fairbanks and Jack Warner, they took seats on a dais to watch the "shooting" of several scenes. Mrs. Coolidge laughed as Louise Fazenda made love to Bert Roach across a beer table. Mr. Coolidge did not laugh. The visitors were then shown a "playback" of the scenes just taken in a nearby projection room. Citizen Coolidge's comment: "That's fine...