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Word: humoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which these men will always live. Chester Noyes Greenough was liked and respected within and without the University. As teacher he was known as a masterful lecturer. As Dean and House Master he was known as one who combined administrative ability with the real virtues of devotion and humor. To those who have been and are undergraduates he will perhaps best be remembered for humanizing the relationship between student and University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR MEMORY'S SAKE | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...times out of ten, however, that is what happens. The correspondents can rarely think of anything worthwhile to ask the President; if they do the convention of mystery that surrounds all sorts of government impels the President to demonstrate his unique ability to say nothing with so much good humor, emphasis and adverbial embellishment that it sounds sensational. The next morning, principally because reporters are by definition romanticists, not less than 50,000,000 deluded U. S. newspaper readers acquire the erroneous impression that they know what is happening at the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: On Relief | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...luck would have it, this week's pictures are poor. Like all of its predecessors, the "Big Broadcast," 1938 model, is a conglomeration of music, humor and specialty acts strung together by the merest phantom of a story. Hollywood's one and only William Clark Fields is sometimes funny but more often clumsy and silly as he struts about barking wise cracks and chewing his large cigar. At his best in a very unconventional game of golf, he provides the film with a few good moments; but when he is gone, there is little left. To be sure, here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/18/1938 | See Source »

Love, music, humor, and spectacle have been carefully moulded together by Director Henry King in the making of "In Old Chicago," and the result, now showing in Boston at the Colonial Theatre, is a powerful, vivid, and entertaining motion picture. Starring the delectable Alice Faye, it is an interesting portrayal of Chicago in the seventies, and the climax--the great fire of 1871--is a worthy addition to the recent series of Hollywood excursions into the realm of spectacular catastrophe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/16/1938 | See Source »

...Mitchell. "I do not wear long pants just because they become me." But Author Mitchell hits the authentic Lardner note most strongly in The Pickle Works, a brilliant sketch of Jimmy Durante. nursing a hangover and memories of his youth at a rehearsal, talking himself from gloom to good humor until he launches on a flight of Broadway poetry: "The stage may be the pickle works to some people, but it's a big box of candy to me. Look at that blonde. ... I should be paying the boss for the privilege of working here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lardner's Line | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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