Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Headlines? But the fact was that the executive departments were busier than any other agencies, and quite properly, in the investigation and prosecution of Communist agents. It was the Department of Justice which staged the comic-opera search of the ship on which Stowaway Gerhart Eisler made his escape. It was also still holding his wife on Ellis Island. It was Justice which was responsible for most of the headlines with its trials of Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and the eleven Communist leaders. It was Harry Truman who by executive order had set up a loyalty investigation...
...prankish ways, he retired to his parents' house in Rye, on England's South Coast, made a studio of his old top-floor nursery and settled down to work while gradually transforming the place into a fluttery nest of picture postcards, tabloid shock photos, scraps of comic strips and reproductions of such artists as Goya, George Grosz and Gustave Dore...
...including myself, which does not shriek, moan, gibber, or drool at the actions of local athletes. (I would like to make it plain that my group is not "intellectual," and that its scholastic average is only slightly above the average. My friends and I enjoy moving-pictures, ice-cream, comic-strips, and in most other respects are Typically American...
Danny, the toomler* who came out of New York's borsch circuit to become a top Broadway and Hollywood comic, was riding his greatest triumph: he was the U.S. traveling salesman who had won the heart of Britannia. It was not just an entertainer's hit; visiting Americans thought that he had been funnier before. By simply being his uninhibited self, he somehow embodied for Britons all that was likable about the U.S., and all that was reassuring to grey socialist Britain...
Musical comedys, like vacations, were better before the war. They were a let more amoral and meaningless and thus unencumbered, they were free to be musical and comic...