Word: comically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...audience had fallen off, Franklin Roosevelt had not. Only television could have shown the nation the relish, the skill of his performance before 22,000 screaming Democrats in the Garden, while 25,000 struggled for standing room in the streets outside. Again his best bits were the comic passages: he ridiculed the Republican leadership for opposing many defense measures before World War II began, for saying "There will be no war"-and for claiming now that he had failed to build up national defense. He said, scorn sharpening his voice: "Today they complain that this Administration has starved our armed...
This week modern Greece had, for better or worse, stepped out of her comic-opera role. Greece was full in the path of huge events. In a debate at the Oxford Union during his exile George once said: "Instinctively I distrust the professor and the pedant. Give me a burly man of bone and gristle." This week the men of bone were...
...short while before the Freiheitsender cut loose, Radio Paris, which the Nazis permitted the French to operate, was suddenly suppressed. Reason: the broadcast of a comic opera by Reynaldo Hahn which had as its finale the lines: "After the day of storm comes the summer sun. It is love that will give us back our liberty." Fairly screamed into the mikes of Radio Paris by an enthusiastic chorus, the lines gave the Nazis a nasty turn...
George Washington Slept Here (by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart, produced by Sam H. Harris). One of the high comic themes of American life concerns the nervous city people who want to get back to the soil-but not so far back as to avoid rural electrification. To this thesis Kaufman & Hart now devote their practiced wits. Ernest Truex plays the part of a little man who buys a Pennsylvania farm where Washington supposedly bedded (actually it turns out to have been Benedict Arnold). The acid Jean Dixon is his wife, forced among other pastoral ordeals to watch a well...
...confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too." There is certainly nothing "dated" in this joke to spoil it, but it would hardly rate in the poorest radio laugh-show. It belongs to a comic old knight, still able to raise cain, but really as antiquated and useless as the England which is giving way to new commerce and "new men" like the ambitious Malvolio. And rather than the "robust comedy" which Miss Hughes wants, the mellowness and restraint of Norman Lloyd and Mark Smith seemed...