Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long (380 pages), slow-moving tale, Honey in the Horn is distinguished for its easy humor, for its wealth of authentic local color wrapped around a slight and artificial plot. Clay Calvert, Oregon orphan, was herding sheep for Uncle Preston Shiveley when Wade Shiveley, one of Uncle Preston's worthless sons, was jailed for having murdered and robbed a gambler. Uncle Preston did not want to be bothered any longer with an offspring who had caused him only misery, persuaded Clay to slip Wade a defective pistol, on the assumption that Wade would try to escape with...
...foremost U. S. embodiment of sex appeal, Jean Harlow's chief qualifications are her hair and her good humor. Her hair brought her to the attention of Howard Hughes in 1929 and thus launched a career which has done more than any other one thing to keep beauty parlors busy through Depression. Her humor, overlooked by Hughes, was recognized by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to whom he sold her contract for $60,000. Since Theda Bara retired, sex appeal on the U. S. screen has been a quality largely identified with comedy. Beginning with Red Headed Woman and continuing with...
...York the common stock of Macy's, Best's, Allied Stores, Federated Department Stores and other retail houses broke into new high ground. In high good humor the National Retail Dry Goods Association, summarizing a round-robin of retail opinion, declared: "If the present forecasts for retailing in the fall of 1935 are in any way realized, we shall experience the best fall season since...
...cartoonist, William Cropper, an ardent Communist sympathizer, unfortunately has no more sense of humor than a Japanese in such matters. While well-meaning Editor Crowninshield was explaining with worried sincerity that everything was all in fun, Cartoonist Cropper exploded: "I shall continue my fight against Japanese Imperialism! The power of the Emperor of Japan and other plutocrats does not intimidate me. I am at work now on a cartoon of the Emperor which he may well consider really offensive...
From this Activist Starace, who has a zero sense of humor, passed to a condemnation of "passive words and phrases such as insediarsi" (to install oneself). According to Starace, to say that a Fascist has been installed in a new post "is to bring to mind a sedia [chair] or worse a poltrona [armchair]. Such words give the impression that an official's first act in his new post is to sit down. Inadmissable! Say instead that he has assumed or shouldered the burden of his new office...