Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-war cartoon of all-the two creepy, skeleton-faced, voluptuous harlots labeled World War II ("Uncle Sap's New Girl Friend") and her fuller-blown mother, World War I (see cuts). Of late these ghoulish temptresses have appeared on Publisher Patterson's editorial page with almost comic-strip frequency-graphically timed to make the most of bitterly intensifying Lend-Lease debate, demonstrations, effigy lynchings and the like...
...jocosity, busy chattering strings, and short reiterated little figures, (a trick used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes, sound effects, changes in mood and tempo, all contributing to a decidedly comic effect. It, and the Handel, Bach and Grandjany concertos; the organ, harp, string orchestra, and tympani, all point to one of the best concerts of the season...
...things make the play hard to take seriously. One is the muddled writing of the author. The other is Barry Fitzgerald, whose role is comic relief. This Abbey Theatre veteran is one of the best and funniest actors alive. He appears here as a ramshackle, dyspeptic Irishman who can never get his coat, pants and shirt properly assembled, and who treats his wretched digestion as the most important topic in Ireland. His comedy not only relieves the play's solemnities-it annihilates them...
...Look at their comic pages...
...confused with Chicago's late comic-strip creator of the Gumps...