Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master of these hunts, which last week wound up a riotous year of keeping Paris in daily stitches, has been self-styled Le Roi des Loufoques (King of the Nuts), Pierre Dae, a baldish, crinkly-eyed comic...
...long-chinned Prohibitionist, his side-whiskered, potbellied G. O. Partisan and many another famed character. He won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1921 (On the Road to Moscow), another in 1924 (News from the Outside World) and a third in 1928 for Tammany!, one of the most savagely comic cartoons ever printed...
...vital, either in itself or as connective tissue. Even so, were the chronicle plays concerned solely with martial and kingly events, their torso might provide a kind of splendid theatrical pageant. But the chronicle plays do not lend themselves to mere pageantry, for in addition to the huge comic figure of Falstaff, they contain scene after scene of intrigue, domestic life, psychological conflict...
...then builds up the story to a high peak of action and suspense from which it never drops till the very end. The characters, passengers on a continental train, are carefully molded to fit the plot. Margaret Lockwood and Dame Whitty are particularly good; and a certain amount of comic relief is supplied by two English cricket fans who are futilely striving to reach England for the test match and meanwhile play a game of their own with pieces of sugar...
...Wrote the Führer: "In Germany before the war, in the schools, in the press and in the comic newspapers, one gradually created an impression of the character of the Englishman, and perhaps more even of his empire, which was bound to lead to the most disastrous self-deception. This nonsense gradually infected everything and the consequence was an underestimate which subsequently bought the bitterest requital. ... I remember how astounded were the faces of my comrades when for the first time we met the Tommy face to face in Flanders...