Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trade agreement with Canada ex-President Hoover is once again showing his habitual narrowness and complete lack of imagination. As if determined to bring his attacks on the New Deal into the limelight at any price, the man from Palo Alto in a not altogether successful attempt at humor described the treaty as "the more abundant life--for Canadians...
...dying men, began to complain of an earache. The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys is a two-volume affair running to 1,271 pages, covering the period from June 7, 1911 to Dec. 31, 1934. Since it was written by Franklin Pierce Adams for his Always in Good Humor and Conning Tower columns in the New York Evening Mail, World and Herald Tribune, it contains only such incidents and opinions as are commonly expressed in public, possesses a modest historical importance for its reflection of current reactions to forgotten hits of the theatre, forgotten bestsellers among the novels, forgotten...
Fortunately, our sense of humor was restored by the other feature, "Two Fisted." This is a rollicking farce featuring Lee Tracy and Roscoe Kearns as manager and broken-down fighter, who save Gail Patrick and her son from the wiles of her no-good husband. As butler and first man, Lee Tracy and Roscoe Kearns are uproariously ridiculous puzzling over a text on the duties of a butler, setting a table, and insulting guests. To preserve the honor and wealth of the household, Kearns takes on a strong plug-ugly backed by the nefarious husband, and finally manages to clout...
...desperate sense of humor, clutching at whatever pleasing it could find in the sullen array of 'social protest' and of drab 'American scene,' seems to have actuated the prize-awarding jurors. . . . The present show is largely invited and presumably is a carefully considered cross-section of American art as it is being produced in the studios of today. If so, then the proletarian gloom that hangs over our artists is becoming as thick as Stalin's Russian fog."-Clarence Joseph Bulliet in the Chicago Daily News...
...might add, though, that the salty humor of Will Rogers and the amusing portraysis of Irving Cobb and Eugene Babette make...