Word: comic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exercise had its comic aspects. One load of supplies was dropped wide of its mark. When the local citizenry started to make off with it, the 505th's commander, Lieut. Colonel Robert Wienecke, hopped into a helicopter and went after them. He hovered ten feet in the air over one man who was dragging a bundle to his car, rose in his seat and trumpeted: "Go put that back." The "liberator" obeyed...
There was nothing comic, however, about the conclusions reached by qualified observers. New York Times Military Analyst Hanson Baldwin found that, while the exercise proved the feasibility of limited, small-scale operations over snow-covered terrain, large-scale transpolar military expeditions would be "virtually impossible." Wrote he: "The difficulties of mass airborne operations in subzero weather are so major that they may never be solved." Mars, like a brass monkey, could not stand intense cold...
...Last week Prime Minister Attlee received a matchbox filled with U.S. coins-43? in all. A twelve-year-old, John Morris, had collected and saved them to send to the U.S. for comic books; instead, he was giving them to his dollar-hungry country. John's government accepted his 43?, and Clem Attlee wrote him a note: ". . . It was a fine idea...
Fewer nightclubs were open, and some were working hard to stay open. The last two nights that Comic George Jessel played the Copacabana, the place threw away its minimum charge. The Latin Quarter advertised "a complete evening's entertainment for $5." Growled the headwaiter at the Latin Quarter: "The goose is here but she ain't layin' any more...
Though Look, Ma has all the special ingredients needed for a musicomedy about ballet, it lacks the right basic ingredients of musicomedy itself. Jerome Robbins has worked out some delightful dances; gifted Harold Lang and others do some delightful dancing; and Nancy Walker, a fine comic, takes excellent care of the comedy. But the minute Look, Ma gives its toes a rest, it becomes all thumbs. Its music is not very bright, and its book is downright dull...