Word: humorlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pity the girl who marries Frank Duncan, clacked the gossips around the Santa Barbara, Calif, courthouse. The owl-eyed lawyer was arrogant and humorless, lisped so noticeably that teasing court clerks called him a "wicked wascal wabbit" behind his back. But that was the lesser half of it: Frank at 29 was a mamma's boy. Matronly, smartly dressed Elizabeth Duncan, separated from her husband when Frank was a child, held her son's hand in court, applauded when he won a case, tongue-lashed the district attorney when he lost. So tight was the noose that once...
Armand was as beautiful as a Greek god and as humorless as a congress of social workers. Annette loved him and tried to make a man of him, and some nights she succeeded. But humanity had to be saved, bombs had to be thrown, and Annette soon became bored. She married, in turn, a couple of impeccable British aristocrats, but she went on loving Armand-to the point of helping him to rob her own guests. But in the end she realized that she could never possess him as other women possess their men. "He was a selfish, egotistical, self...
There are too many villains in the drama to single out one for the most severe denunciation. The humorless, self-aggrandizing athletes of the Undergraduate Athletic Council can only be condemned for their refusal to accept their Radcliffe compatriots. The University Administration, a stiff-necked, Puritan lot, cannot be chastized enough for the paternal prohibitions it placed upon the Harvard Band. The HAA, in ordering local constables to arrest any girl appearing on the field, has forgotten that Harvard is not merely a moneymaking institution...
...Italian fancy-dress ball. Her young Americans are rich, educated and self-consciously tortured by love and the need to prove that art and personality are more important than money and family. All are friends living in a convention-clamped New England university town. Except for Harold, a humorless but kindly culture-vulture, they would much sooner make a sexual slip than be caught uttering a cliche. Bayard works full time at being a snob and composer. His sister Cally paints, keeps hopping into beds, and wonders if true love will always pass her by. Tosh is a poet...
Besides her long-suffering husband (Gene Lyons), Dulcy's circle includes her bemused brother-in-law (Perry Fiske); a humorless, successful businessman (Lawrence Fletcher) with a flighty, amateur-writing wife (Gloria Barret), love-smitten daughter (Betty Rollin), and silly advertising agent (Brooks Rogers); an overdrawn temperamental Hollywoodite (Leo Bloom), who insists on being called a "scenarist" rather than a "scenario writer"; a piano-playing gentleman with hallucinosis (Justice Watson); a celebrated attorney (Stanford McAuley); and an ex-larcenous butler (Howard Mann...