Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson would not support a 90% farm parity program. In no time at all, Eisenhower's Attorney General Herbert Brownell had Benson on the long-distance phone and talking with Young. The Senators all came away from their luncheon in good humor...
...latest issue of the Lampoon--the Christmas issue, I suppose--resembles a rather thin, but well-cared-for child. For once there is nothing really bad in it, and there are several instances of genuine humor. It is a correctly-balanced issue, with the proper proportions of verse, story, and cartoon. Although the contributors to this Lampoon do not always succeed in being funny, they at least appear to have tried...
...blue-eyed guesswork, the story of Hadrian's adventures in the Vatican carries a kind of unshakable conviction. Nor is it all a vision: Rolfe is well aware of the humor of his hero's situation, and plays it often for laughs and even for smiles. Yet when the Pope at last dies, felled by an assassin, the moment is quite as high and tragic as the language Rolfe renders...
...bulky, overweight (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ibs. plus) man with a saturnine eye and a well-established reputation for earthy humor. Taylor's friend, the famed old art critic Bernard Berenson, tells a story of Taylor in a New York elevator when a young woman passenger was pinched by the elevator boy. She shrieked. "I am pleased to note," said Taylor instantly and impassively, "that there is at least something still done by hand here...
Personality: A hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien-a compound of close-cropped grey hair, an affinity for black suits and ties, and a habit of looking people straight in the eye-he is, however, a friendly man with a well-used sense of humor. (His disclaimer, when asked whether he avoids smokers and drinkers: "You'd sure have to do a lot of detouring in America today.") He is an able and unruffled administrator who sets a fast pace. On a recent Sunday, he preached twice in the morning at a church in Fort Worth...