Word: drollness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This season the portly (229 lbs.), shaggy droll with the twinkling squint has hurdled the gulf from Omnibus to The $64,000 Challenge, popped up on What's My Line?, The Last Word, and six memorable sessions of the Jack Paar Show. Last week, in his second Omnibus show, he won hosannas for directing and starring in a televersion of his own satiric tragedy, Moment of Truth, playing a Petain-like elder statesman with overtones of King Lear...
Back from an overseas vacation, Washington's gregarious Democratic Senator Warren G. Magnuson brought tidings to a private Seattle luncheon of a droll exchange between himself and Pope Pius XII. At the end of an audience with His Holiness, the Senator, having been tagged as a Lutheran, was about to leave. He clutched a box containing a rosary, a souvenir of his visit. The Pope asked him to tarry a moment and asked: "Did you look at what is in the box?" Magnuson allowed that he had peeked. Quipped the most urbane of modern pontiffs: "Sometimes when I give...
...CRIMSON has learned, however, that if printing arrangements can be completed, the "Best Frat on York St." Will, lo and behold, publish an extra this afternoon. Such an effort will of itself be laudable, and made even more so by the that the Yalie Dailie editors, droll chaps that they are, plan to make this extra a parody of the CRIMSON...
...with the fluidity of a movie. "We also put inordinate effort into the script," said Susskind, "on the outmoded theory that in the beginning was the word." Adapter Leslie Slote's words had dash and swagger, especially as wielded by Canadian Actor Christopher Plummer, the prince's droll derring...
Kaganovich introduced his protege to the top Kremlin big shots, and Khrushchev, who had wit and a fund of droll peasant sayings, and could laugh with his hands on his hips at the boss's mordant quips, was soon a regular visitor at the dacha Stalin kept for his fun-loving consort Roza Kaganovich, Lazar's sister. Khrushchev was a good deal more useful to Stalin than many of his Kremlin dummies. Twice Stalin sent him into the Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores...