Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Find a window, preferably a cellar-window, though one leading to an acquaintance's room is a real delicacy; and slipping up to it unobserved, give it an unexpected but earnest kick. If the window yields, you have scored a point, and you may flee, shrieking with laughter to sidewalks new. The present University glass-kicking team has seven of the panes in Mr. Morse's lunch-room to its credit, and the inhabitants of Mt. Auburn street await its re-appearance on the field with eager interest. All those who have shoes, and fine their ears growing long, should...
...opera suffers from three things. A comedian or Mr. Powers's or Mr. Daniels's type should have the part of Felix; Mr. McCloskey sings well but his humor is rather disappointing. The thing which provoked the heartiest laughter was his unintentional tripping over his sword and his sudden descent upon the leading lady, who was expecting an embrace and not a flying tackle...
...real fun of the play comes partly from the broadly humorous lines and farcical situations, but chiefly from Miss Irwin. During the first act, the laughter is hearty and constant, but the fun wanes steadily thereafter, as the pace of the play grows slower and action deteriorates into dialogue. Miss Irwin interrupts the second act pleasantly by several of her really funny songs and verses...
...during the past few months, I think, we have all welcomed extra pages. This time the twelve additional pages of reading matter not to mention the new advertisements--make the paper just long enough to carry us joyously through the intermissions at the Game, to add the spice of laughter to our content or to lighten--but the Lampoon nowhere suggests gloom...
...last play of the evening, Lady Gregory's "Workhouse Ward," in which two grizzled and old invalids side by side on hospital cots, cajole themselves into anger and the audience into laughter by their antics and zeal in remaining with one another when Mrs. Donohue, who comes to get one of them, refuses to take both of them in substitution for one complete...