Word: humorless
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...current events ancient stories and pictures about the rollicking 1890s and the depression-ridden 1930s. Old Charlie Chaplin movies are reported, not as achievements in comic art, but as true stories about U.S. treatment of tramps. From some cute remarks to a paper's inquiring photographer, the humorless Reds built their definition of the typical U.S. male's ideal pleasure: beating Mae West...
...months Ricardo Balbin, leader of the Radical opposition, had sat in jail for calling the President a "dictator" and a "liar" in a campaign speech (TIME, May 1, Dec. 11). During that time, criticism of such harsh and humorless punishment for a political opponent had risen sharply both at home and abroad. Balbin, more popular than ever before, shouted from his cell: "I have no regrets. I am less a prisoner than those on the outside...
...most standards, Simone Weil was an absurd and unattractive woman. Almost constantly ailing, painfully humorless and so intense she was either irritating or ridiculous, she agonized through a short life of 34 years and died in 1943 in a gesture that seemed to typify her gift for futile heroics. She virtually starved herself to death in England by refusing, though she was weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime ration for her native France...
Small Fry and Magic Cottage lean toward whimsy and traditional fairy tales. Captain Video plunges the adolescent into the science-fiction world of interplanetary travel and electronic marvels. It features epic, if inconclusive struggles between the forces of Good, headed by humorless Captain Video, and Evil, personified by a hand-rubbing eccentric named Doctor Pauli who, as president of the Astrodial Society, pettishly wants to destroy the earth...
...Churchill vividly describes things in The Hinge of Fate, Volume IV of his massive history, The Second World War, it was quite a party. It lasted from 8:30 that evening until 2:30 a.m., with a fagged and humorless Molotov patiently enduring the humor of the other two. When Churchill, with a twinkle, accused Molotov of delaying his return from the U.S. so that he could shake his NKVD guards and have a visit on the town in Manhattan, Molotov turned, Churchill thought, "rather serious." Stalin played it for a laugh: "It was not to New York he went...