Word: comical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accused produced conclusive evidence that all of the offensive material, pictorial and otherwise, had been lifted from the pages of a Harvard comic magazine known as the "Lampoon...
...famed Hollywood comedian sat uneasily in the witness stand last week and considered the far-from-comic aspects of ingratitude. Charles Spencer Chaplin, 55, his platinum hair damp against his perspiring forehead, saw himself as an ill-used man. Three years ago, he had impulsively befriended an auburn-haired, freckle-nosed girl from Detroit named Joan Berry. There was a misty quality in the girl's shy brown eyes that made him think she might have picture possibilities. As it turned out, she didn...
Died. Harry Langdon, 60, wide-eyed, comic deadpantomimer of Hollywood's silent-film days (The Strong Man, Long Pants, etc.); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hollywood. Out of a long apprenticeship in carnivals, circuses, tent shows, vaudeville, Langdon evolved his helpless, forlorn, little-man-against-the-world comic style, which was once worth $7,500 a week, later sank to "$22 a week-some weeks...
...Keys of the Kingdom (20th Century-Fox), a handsome and heartfelt screen version of A. J. Cronin's bestseller, lacks the parochial authenticity, the comic pathos and the sagacious acting which made Going My Way the best of all movies about priests. But it is rather more attentive to religion, and its religiousness is not only free of pomp and sanctimony but is also human, dramatic and moving...
...Louisiana State University student comic miscellany (the Whangdoodle) printed a story of a fictitious visit by a Baton Rouge telegrapher to a professor's wife while the professor was away. Its undergraduate author was promptly expelled. The governor asked the university's president to reinstate him. The president refused. Soon the university had anew president...