Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following day "Jumping Joe" Ferguson, Taft's defeated opponent, sauntered amiably into the chamber to talk about Republican slush funds. Ferguson sounded more like comic relief than one of the main characters. "I'm not casting any aspirations on the reporters around here," he malapropped during one explanation, "but those newspapers in Ohio are really Republican." Explaining his own defeat, Ferguson said: "The reason I got beat so bad was that the Democrats and the working people didn't go out to vote." As an afterthought, he added with unprecedented political candor: "Of course, if they...
...first act, the authors are able to hit it from every angle. They go back into her former life twice, once to a stone cave and later to a Roman bordello. The dialogue is witty, and the characters are almost perfect: a confused critic as the lover, a comic secretary, a Helen Hokinson-like committee woman, a stuffy judge, and a refugee from The Cocktail Party. They are all played to the hilt...
...part of Scrooge with delightful gusto, whether barking at charity solicitors, cringing before ghosts, demoniacally fleecing a business associate or lavishing favors on a startled Cratchit. Sim gets his best support from Kathleen Harrison, who expands the Dickens vignette of Scrooge's glum charwoman into a life-size comic portrait. Sample: the hilariously ghoulish scene that shows her cheerfully plying the rag & bones man with Scrooge's deathbed effects...
Skeptic. In Atlanta, Earl Martin, 22, was fined $13 for stealing a comic book entitled Crime Does...
...sincerity were enough to make a good novel, We Fished All Night might be a minor masterpiece. It has a few vivid mo ments: a comic meeting of ward heelers, a warm glimpse of a Polish family. But for the most part its political sermonizing stirs unhappy memories of the "proletarian fiction" of the 19305. In 560 closely printed pages, that is too much of a bad thing...