Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reluctance. Hubert, naturally, was in great good humor. "I weighed the decision on the vice-presidency very carefully," he confessed to a group of Young Democrats. "Not long-but carefully." He was not sure just what qualities he had for the job, he said, "but I know one that I didn't have-reluctance!" Hubert allowed as how he had done some research on former Vice Presidents, and on their contributions to the office. He had found them, he said wryly, a most illustrious group. "Who can forget those storied Vice Presidents of the past?" he cried. "William...
...bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that will probably establish a long-term policy of lend-Lisi. She is devastating to behold as a centerpiece, though she somehow makes hard-sell sex seem at least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which...
...alone would not give him his grip and facility at 23; with us hereditary statesmen and party leaders ripen later. Perhaps it is his American strain to which he adds a keenness, a shrewdness, a half-cynical personal ambition, a natural aptitude for advertisement, and happily, a sense of humor...
...which would probably have put me into the top four, locking it up in their dignified closets. But resist though they might my actual physical election, they could not undo the damage that had been done. The seriousness of my cause, or causes, lived an imperishable life in the humor which surrounded...
...Popov, who keeps his watch on Moscow time, charge one another with high treason. The Americans, generally as collegiate as Atherton (his qualifications: Princeton courses in "Great Ideas of the West" and "Great Ideas of the East"), try to turn it into low comedy. To no noticeable avail. The humor, clearly intended to be revisionist Ninotchkci, is virtually pre-Czar...