Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benny's ad-libbing ability was obvious to most of his soldier audiences on his recent 32,000-mile U.S.O. tour. But not a single top-rank U.S. comedian could get by for long without his stable of gagmen. The comic demands of regular radio appearances are too heavy for one man's wits. This fact confronted U.S.O. with a traffic problem when it decided to transport U.S. comedians abroad to entertain the troops. The gagmen would have made just so much extra baggage...
...American Scene was under ludicrous attack again last week. Cartoonist Whitney Darrow Jr., for ten years a comic ornament to The New Yorker, published his first collection of drawings, You're Sitting on my Eyelashes (Random House; $2.50). In the title cartoon a raucously artificial brunette addressed a startled gentleman who had just taken her seat at the movies...
...will have to go to Confession next Easter; and I find the spectacle-the box, your portly kneeling figure, the poor devil inside wishing you had become a Fire-worshipper instead of coming there to shake his soul with a sense of his ridiculousness and yours-all incredible, monstrous, comic...
Mark Clark's years at West Point were not distinguished. He was nicknamed "Opie," because one Sunday his classmates found him pining for his hometown comic papers, so he could follow the adventures of a character described as "Opie Dillydock." The General has said that his main objective as a student was "graduating." He did well in history and philosophy, not so well in mathematics. In the class of April 20, 1917, he stood in among 139. From commencement he entered the sterner school of World War I. He sailed for France as a captain of infantry. In action...
...growing number of U.S. servicemen and plain citizens who do their best with U.S. comic strips in Latin American newspapers, the office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs has published a guide of Spanish titles. Examples...