Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad face handsome, his effect on women voters devastating. He has the endurance and enthusiasm required of a modern candidate; after an 18-hour day, he can look out over a street-corner crowd of 50 and say: "This is terrific. Really wonderful!" He has a sense of humor about his own wealth. Walking down a Brooklyn street recently, he found a dime, stuffed it in his pocket, said: "This is like carrying coals to Newcastle." His favorite promise and a proven laugh-getter: "I'd like to give Averell Harriman a run for his money...
Although Danny Kaye may never become a great Hamlet, his acting talents extend far beyond the clowning and double-talk which have become his trademark. In his latest movie, he plays a Polish Jew fleeing the Nazis, and the comedy, while still there, is understandably subdued. His natural humor and warmth are modified by a wistful realism, revealing depth of character which had hitherto been lost among the slapstick...
...contract along with everybody else, Goren ghosted for ex-Mentor Milton Work's syndicated column. Work got about $20,000 a year out of the column, paid Goren $35 a week-a disparity that Goren still resents. A talented and proud writer with a flair for gently whimsical humor, Goren vividly recalls that Boss Work would invariably "edit out the brightness...
Life-loving Milles could not resist adding grace notes of Puckish humor to the attendant figures, two angels and a faun. To visitors who came to see the all-but-complete figures in the studio, Milles did his tongue-in-cheek best to explain away the oddities: "Why is there an angel playing the flute? Horses love music, didn't you know? Why did I put the angel on one side? Don't you think God sends his people down to see what we are doing? The other angel has a wristwatch; I don't know...
...Cautious Heart is British Novelist Sansom's fifth novel (among the others: The Loving Eye). It is sage, funny, benign and stamped with Sansom's special mastery of situations in which sex, humor and sympathy fight for supremacy in a human battle that never ends...