Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks at And on the Eighth Day hard and long enough is apt to wonder whether it is he or the artist who is in need of a session on the confessional couch. Dean, a successful commercial artist and nephew of revolutionary Sculptor Jacob Epstein, has some of the humor of a Thurber or a Steig: but he is not trying to be funny. This is his third book of drawings (the others: It's a Long Way to Heaven, What Am I Doing Here?), all owed to the remorseless probings of Drs. Freud and Jung. Like the others...
...sensitive Britons to overhear: visiting British economists could expect "friendliness and helpfulness from the U.S." Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, onetime commander of the Legion, presented Mr. Truman with the Legion's Distinguished Service Medal, its highest award. Said Secretary Johnson: "In his simplicity, his humility, his charm, his humor, his devotion to his friends . . . our friend and fellow veteran Harry Truman never seems to change...
...handful that survived. He came through because he was tough and knew life in the wilderness (in 1937, he had become the first man to scale the 23,930-ft. peak of Chomolhari in the Himalayas, was already a famed Arctic explorer), because he had a sense of humor, and because he kept himself busy plaguing the Japs. Writes Chapman: "[The jungle] provides any amount of fresh water, and unlimited cover for friend as well as foe . . . It is the attitude of mind that determines whether you go under or survive . . . The jungle itself is neutral...
...safety and sanitary regulations in industry at a time when factory girls had little protection. In such ways she became a force to be reckoned with in U.S. life. Long before she died (in 1883), her face and name had become part of the country's folklore and humor. One standard story...
...American type that it creates and satirizes, A Sea Change is something like Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, and like that book it is written with affection for the subject. But it has an art of its own that makes it rich and strange. The writer's humor can be bland and surreptitious, or broad and biting. Of Divver's punditry: "His views were not original, except in the field of military strategy and logistics...