Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high good humor he let the Press in on the news that citizens were criticizing the Works program for its snail's-pace start, for its prospect of amounting to no more than $4,000,000,000 worth of boondoggling and leaf-raking. Just to prove that it would not be boondoggling he was going to read a list of the projects approved day before yesterday. Let the newshawks stop him when they got tired. The President picked up a twelve-page sheaf of papers, commenced to read such items as the following...
...modest, obstinate, and very lovable little person. . . . Upon this first impression a more noble presentation imposes itself, and the contours of Strube's Little Man expand and strengthen into the firm, fine features of Mr. Stanley Baldwin. In some such outward semblance do I visualize the solidity, the good humor, the honesty, the inconsequence, and the indolence of our race...
Long: That is the toughest thing I ever ran into. No one wants to agree to anything. Some members of the Senate have gotten into a bad humor...
...dressed in the traditional caps and gowns, looking very scholastic and dignified as they passed in review before the spectators. A note of humor was added by the fact that they carried on their shoulders three young urchins from the Cambridge suburbs, one of whom was sporting a severe black...
...most notable feature of this cockeyed production is that its skits and blackouts represent a definite progression in revue humor from the bedroom to the bathroom, a metamorphosis illustrated nowhere better than in the Wild West poker game which revolves around a bottle of Pluto Water. Unchanged and unchanging, however, are the Carroll girls. As pretty and as hussy as ever, they bring their erotism a bit closer to the bald-headed row this year by pulling off their garters, tossing them to nearby spectators...