Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of years human infants in the first year of life have squirmed, kicked, rolled, crawled, gurgled, cried, laughed, panted, sucked, waked, slept and submitted with good humor or bad grace to endless ministrations. For thousands of years all of these doings were of supreme importance only to their mothers and, sometimes, their fathers. But for seven years such typical, normal baby actions have seemed to a kindly and learned man in New Haven to be of supreme importance to Science. Fruit of that belief appeared last week in the form of a monumental, 15½-lb. compendium...
With a clear head on which grows little hair, a good sense of humor which often takes a literary turn despite a fondness for slang in ordinary conversation, an indifference to formality which comes out in slipshod clothes, Chairman Garrison, with his colleagues, has decided in two months more questions than the old Labor Board did in nine. Last week they undertook to decide the biggest and most vexing question of the year for Labor and Industry: What does Section 7 (a) of the Recovery Act mean...
...encroachment of white culture on black folk. Here "Civilization" and "Paganism" meet at the ford of a small tributary of the Congo River where an "outpost of progress" is in the making. Not a novel for best-seller lists, Black God should be enjoyed by discriminating readers for its humor, its delicate prose...
...butlers have long been butts of humor. Depression or no Depression. Says Hawkins: "The hunger marchers are meeting in the grand ballroom, sir." It is the authors' theory that the nudist craze is simply the result of economic law. The pair on the jacket of their work are clad in barrels with shoulder straps. The wife coyly holds a small nail keg while her surprised husband asks: "Why didn't you tell me, dear...
...craft and the men who pursue it, he has not overlooked the fact that novel writing is also a craft in itself. He has mastered the new calling as thoroughly as his hero. Slim, mastered the job of wire stringing. The tale is by turns hardboiled, sentimental, tragic, humorous. But the toughness, the sentiment, the tragedy and the humor all belong to a man's world. Pride of work comes first, play second, true love a lame third...