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Word: humored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talked for two days, and set a U.N. record. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, listening to the same interminable speech by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and Byelo Russian delegates, remarked in Oxonian tones: "If I may lapse into the idiom of bebop, just dig that cracked record." Sometimes U.N. humor has been less intentional, as when Warren Austin advised the Arabs and the Jews to "settle this problem in a true Christian spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: World On Trial | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...three-judge Appeals Court did not find itself guffawing at the jest. Last week Federal Judge Harold R. Medina ruled for the court: "This is a curious and unprofitable sort of jesting, as others may not view the humor in the same light . . . These explanations are wholly without merit or substance." The court unanimously upheld the $175,001 judgment against Pegler and his Hearst employers, who must pay the bill under terms of Pegler's contract. It is one of the biggest libel awards ever given by a U.S. court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Unprofitable Jest | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Marty. The love story of "a very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man-well perceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Dinner Party, this leisurely, secure world is chronicled with grace and unobtrusive humor by a practicing resident. Gretchen Finletter's credentials: she is a descendant of James G. Elaine, a daughter of famed Conductor Walter Damrosch, the wife of lawyer and onetime Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter of Manhattan and Bar Harbor, Me. Her heroine is terrified by the very fashionable and the very bright, but Author Finletter is both bright and fashionable. She has written a scattering of plays, and a book of memoirs. Once, for a charity show, she wrote a play called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

Marty. The love story of "a very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man-well perceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 13, 1955 | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

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