Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business manager or administrator, preacher, and of certain filling station employees and retail clerks. . . . Assets: one car (runs best in garage); three suits clothes (when wearing two of which I find a strictly upright carriage advisable) ; one pair worn shoes (but feet in good shape). Also one sense of humor, somewhat groggy or in a comatose state (seems to be result of trying to explain to children the value of education in North Carolina...
...ideal of a business interview is reported to be 4½ min. for business, 30 sec. for greetings and farewells. People lucky enough to get inside his crowded office in the Post Office Building find a distinguished old gentleman with a snowy Vandyke beard, twinkling eyes, rippling humor. New Hampshire-born and educated, he has, in his 62 years, published the Boston Traveler, superintended the Associated Press's New England division, conducted a Boston investment house, operated a shipyard in Florida, helped found the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...such bald outline can give even the superficial taste of this big (912-page) book. It contains hundreds of characters, scenes that range from harsh realism through satire and humor to passages of Joycean impressionism, Whitmanesque poetry. In form it is variously a narrative, an epic, a diatribe, a chronicle, a psalm, but in essence it is a U. S. voice. Author Wolfe's whole theme: "Why is it we have crossed the stormy seas so many times alone, lain in a thousand alien rooms at night hearing the sounds of time, dark time, and thought until heart, brain...
...love. The ensuing contest results in a break-up of the love affair, leaving the audience in suspense as to the outcome. But in the end the difficulty is patched up in an unexpected but delightful manner. The antics of Stepin Fetchit add considerably to the humor of the picture throughout...
...himself--a task of questionable value. Mental trouble finally disappears and the audience departs in satisfaction if not extreme pleasure. George Brent quite bad as the sal young man, Kay Francis attractive as young lady. Warren William quietly capable as trusty Samaritan. The photography ample, but not extraordinary. The humor weak, except where unintentional. For Hollywood's enlightenment--there are no great mountain ranges on Long Island, unless the administration has been exceedingly active since we were there this Christmas...