Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt gave a formal reception for the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court. Only four attended: Messrs. Hughes, Butler, Roberts, Stone. Very much on hand was Attorney General Cummings, sitting on a table, swinging his legs, laughing, chatting in high good humor to show that he was not worried by what the old gentlemen might decide about Gold...
Anybody but W.C. Fields would have a difficult time making "It's a Gift" an entertaining cinema, but the premier genius of cinematic humor has already proven his ability to diffuse even the dullest of material with a spirit of universally appealing humor, and by dial of his admirable skill "It's a Gift" is a truly amusing film. The general make up is typical of the sort of stuff against which Fields has to contend but he produces two especially tickling scenes. The age-old struggle of the male against the female for the bathroom mirror is most laughably...
...bigoted complacency of demagogues to whom the word anachronism means nothing? When will you cease to permit the discouragement of universally acknowledged art? When will you open your theatres to all that is significant and courageous in the modern drama, and thus relegate to their true position the low humor, the trivialisation of the important that you countenance in your burlesque shows? For New England's sterility in the creative arts, censorship such as you tacitly agree to is largely responsible. You have more than merited the charges of hypocrisy that have been levelled at you. Is there...
With the greatest of gusto and good humor he ceaselessly tries to explain his theories of the emotional value of color, and in particular his fondness for brilliant reds. Slow-witted listeners generally retire baffled, content that the "Vermillionaire's" colors, whatever they may mean, are pure, shrewdly chosen, and form most decorative patterns...
...With grace and humor Albert Frederick, Duke of York, second son of Their Majesties, solved the problem of what to say to the mechanical folk of Britain's Industrial Welfare Association, as follows: "My industrial visits do not always have the best results. I seem sometimes to place an evil spell on any machines in which I would take a special interest. They may break down or stop. Once, to my surprise and dismay, I was dropped in a lift; another time a supposedly foolproof stamping machine ejected 40 unstamped letters for my benefit. The threads of looms...