Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Ickes is a short, paunchy man with thin grey hair and a mouth that twists up into strange shapes. Behind his gruff manner lies dry humor. He likes to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. Few regular politicians of either party can guess which way Lone Wolf Ickes will jump next. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, his wife, whose inheritance is sufficient to leave them both free for politics, is now serving her third term as a regular Republican in the Illinois Legislature. The Insull debacle has been the latest and largest Ickes target...
...moment--nay almost non-existent. The picture is too disjointed, too inchoate to be a work of art. No exceptional photographic ability is shown. The actors have little individuality. But the picture is essentially warm, mellow, and human. And it has a certain amount of homely simple humor. It ends characteristically when one of the workers, trying to emulate the example of American engineers, succeeds in spitting on his own shoe...
...expense of the G. O. P. He teased and tormented Henry Cabot Lodge. He smeared President Harding with mock sympathy. He tweaked and twitted President Coolidge. He first put in circulation the "dammed, drained and ditched" joke on Engineer Hoover. But his gibes were always in loud good humor and after a particularly spirited attack he would stroll off to a ball game arm-in-arm with Republican Leader Watson. Always the smart politician. Democrat Harrison played close to the Brown Derby in 1928, was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...accession to power. And yet any attempt along these lines can scarcely ignore the greatest power in the Near East, the Union whose strength in the Basin outweighs that of any other nation. Mr. Fish's fear that recognizing Russia may antagonize Japan is not with-out its humor after the stinging rebukes of Mr. Stimson's notes and the anathema pronounced by the League of Nations...
There is no gripping melodrama in "The Queen's Husband." no kick in the pants humor. But this nice, soft, subiter--there are those who seem to love...