Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother's sake, and what is more he loves his mother very much. One city father simply turns to another and whispers gleefully: "See, he has a natural flair for politics." The sight of so much suffering inevitably makes Woodrow's ultimate ascent from his excruciating little comic hell an uncommonly heart-warming experience...
Last week the rival Don Giovanni came off. Despite a few first-rate voices, it resembled a turgid Italian antipasto rather than an exquisite Mozartian souffle. One of the first-rate voices, the Metropolitan Opera's great comic basso, Salvatore Baccaloni, summed it all up by saying: "It stank, if I say so myself." Said the critic of Novedades: "The performance could only be described as weird. Unfortunately, those who did not attend may have been misled by one of my distinguished colleagues who rushed into print Sunday morning stating that the performance could hardly be equaled at Covent...
...only general magazines and newspapers "for which preference by members of the Army has been established"; 3) the preferred list is comparatively small because comparatively few of the 300-odd U.S. general magazines are widely read (the 18 preferred account for over 80% of U.S. newsstand sales, exclusive of comic and women's magazines) and transportation facilities are crowded. Any soldier anywhere may still subscribe to, receive from home, or buy at a public newsstand, any magazine he wants...
Burke kidded and rawhided them into battle shape, turned his engines at 31 knots, dressed each ship with a new in-signe: the "Little Beaver," a character from Artist Fred Harman's comic strip Red Ryder...
Married. Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wal let, 23, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's comic-strip character be loved by millions; and Nina Clock, 22, his boyhood sweetheart; both for the first time; in Gasoline Alley...