Word: drollness
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...every Senator is a witness to the irreproachable character of every other Senator. Both Senators had been bulwarks of the New Deal even unto the last ditch of the Court Plan. But Sherman Minton had not reached the Senate until the New Deal was two years old. Besides, the droll McNutt machine had put Sherman Minton into office while Hugo Black was beholden to no machine except his own, grounded in the Alabama backwoods whence he sprang. His mind made up, Franklin Roosevelt wrote in longhand his long-awaited message to the Senate last week: "I nominate Hugo L. Black...
...Beloved Enemy" is a magnificent picture, one not to be missed on any excuse. At times the human side of the war is stressed--the droll "Tommies", the clamorous market-place the mock rebellion of the Irish youngsters, and the peace and beauty of the open fields These details serve only to silhouette more sharply the brooding terror of the rebellion. Sudden death is the backdrop for all the scenes, and always it is threatening to fall down on the players. There is enough martial noise and clank to satisfy the most blood-thirsty, but some other element makes...
...Mabel Dodge's unhappy childhood in a prosperous Buffalo family and of schoolgirlish infatuations In the U. S. and France. Second, European Experiences (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935) told of her first two marriages, of establishing a meeting-place for adventurous spirits in her villa in Florence, included droll accounts of how she almost had love affairs with an Italian chauffeur, a British officer, as well as with poets, painters and poseurs of varied talent. Written with a queer sort of frozen-faced malice that did not reveal what the author thought of the highbrow foolishness she observed, the memoirs...
Punch's droll Herbert could not leave off without proposing that "upon the Hot Seat or Vibrating Chair which jiggles" in the gymnasium, the Cunard White Star line should screw another commemorative plate: "HERE SAT, WITH HIS ACCUSTOMED DIGNITY AND CHARM, SIR HORACE DAWKINS, THE REVERED CLERK AT THE TABLE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AND WAS VIBRATED AFTER A GOOD LUNCH, MAY 16TH...
...jazzier sort will not be sublimated. With one of his pupils he creates a modern ballet which in a burst of inspiration they entitle "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." In attempting to get his opus staged Dolan becomes involved in the highly emotional group of Slavic ballet artists and many droll things ensue...