Word: comically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comic-strip husbands always say "Honest, I was at a lodge meeting," because Maggie, Silly Milly et al. cannot penetrate the fraternal secrecy to check up on them. Last week, more & more international politicos were joining the Knights of Yalta...
...most talked about comedian in the U.S. today is a lithe, 33-year-old mophead named Danny Kaye. Unlike great clowns of the past, he does not wear funny clothes, fall on his prat, throw custard pies or even borrow ancient jokes from Joe Miller. His chief comic assets are a nimble brain and an even nimbler tongue...
Since Danny Kaye's comic talent has begun to be taken seriously, he has been made the target of some surprising statements and offers. Pianist Artur Rubinstein said: "I feel most often about him what everyone else felt about Chaplin...
Rowlandson's raffish lampoons showed a corrupt but essentially comic world in which everyone was either too fat or too thin. Plump, pug-faced William Hogarth was perhaps harder to take. With less wit, he had gone deeper into the cynical, sensual, swaggering spirit of his time, and used his engraving tools, like a moral surgeon, to lay bare the malignant tumors of cruelty, ignorance and greed...
Concluded Gould: "Ratings have come to fulfill the sinister function of being the absolute critical standard for radio programing. It is as though a Rembrandt, a Beethoven symphony, a burlesque comic, a Tin Pan Alley ballad, a Keats sonnet and a pulp-magazine serial all were to be weighed on the same scales. That would seem too much even for radio...