Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Communist weekly Action kidded her in a comic strip about Geneviève Cambouis, Clairvoyante, who excused herself during an interview to rush to Moscow and thrust a microphone under Stalin's table...
...about a week later on the Williamsburg Bridge. In between is an intricate, tense story involving a number of jewel thieves and two untiring detectives. The camera roams pleasantly over most of New York as the detectives close in, and Albert Maltz, the scriptwriter, has even provided moments of comic relief in his caressing tour of the city...
Died. Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren, 55, Stars & Stripes cartoonist of World War I, whose tireless gouging at MPs, topkicks, cooties and second looies made him the comic favorite of the A.E.F.'s doughboys; of a liver ailment; in Upper Darby...
...Roman emperor, and it was this aspect, apparently, that on one fateful occasion tempted the jovial prince to empty a glass of brandy on his head at dinner. Said Christopher, never batting an eye, "As Your Royal Highness pleases." The guests were convulsed. The prince had made a wonderful comic discovery and, "having enjoyed the great game of sousing Christopher once, he wanted to have it, in the touching way of infancy, 'again.' Well, royalty can command, and he had it again, he had it unnumbered times, he had it to the very...
...means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died needlessly because of Slater's viciousness and Bullivant's weakness...