Word: droll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter how the winds of Soviet censorship may blow, the New York Times's droll, scholarly Correspondent Brooks Atkinson often contrives to get his message through from Moscow. One safe system: simply quote from the papers, and keep your afterthoughts dry. Last week a story in Izvestia caught his fancy. He passed it along: "Red Army troops are evacuating Iran amid many expressions of love and admiration at mass meetings of the people. . . . From Meshed Comes a bulletin: ... 'as our dear guests by their good behavior left pleasant impressions . . . the Iranian people love the Soviet people from...
...surprisingly modern-looking. One figure, which looked like one of Disney's Seven Dwarfs, stood bent-kneed, bat in hand, as if timidly waiting for the next pitch. Another was a subtle, tender caricature of a man's face with the head and body of a fat, droll...
...thing is partly delightful because Playwright Chase (a former Denver newspaperwoman whom Dorothy Parker once called "the greatest undiscovered wit in the country") has written some immensely funny lines, and in Elwood has created a very special character-droll, daffy, warmhearted, touching. It is also partly delightful because Elwood, who on a stage could easily become incredible or dismaying, is played to perfection by veteran Vaudevillian Frank Fay (as is Elwood's harassed sister by Josephine Hull). Fay not only makes Elwood a fine fellow when he is riding high; he makes him an even finer one when...
...ceremonies of his day, Fay shows not a trace of breeziness, brassiness or smut. His manner is almost prim, his delivery slow, his material largely pointless. For one drawled gag like "Had a date with a newspaperwoman the other night-yes, she keeps a stand," there are a dozen droll nothings that are triumphs of timing and intonation...
...Haupt, Manhattan teacher and bibliophile, deftly indicates the psychological sources of Dore's work. By recalling his lesser-known achievements in cartooning, the book rounds out the French giant of 19th-Century illustration for those who know him only in his solemn Inferno and Bible, farcical Rabelais and Droll Stories...