Word: humorlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without my clothes," he says with dignity. Holding his temper under rigid control, he now speaks so softly his subordinates have to strain to hear; if they argue, he clams up and marches out. Feared and respected by politicians,.Chen is popular with the armed forces. Frugal, remote, humorless, Chen serves plain chow mein at his modest home near Chiang's atop Taipei's Grass Mountain, and criticizes colleagues for giving elaborate parties. One of his four sons is working his way through M.I.T., his two daughters are studying at Georgia Wesleyan. His wife is a devout Christian...
...Humorless Cry-Baby." For a few other newspapers that carped at the Hays-Coffin findings, the Ottawa Journal had only mock-serious despair. "The trouble, apparently, is that some stroke of cruel misfortune has placed Canadians, wise, virtuous, altruistic, full of grace, all but perfect in their thoughts, acts and general conduct, alongside a people who are imperfect, who lack our wisdom, idealism, grace and near-perfect behavior, leaving us in a mess. Are we not in danger of losing all sense of proportion-becoming in the process a sort of humorless cry-baby of the Western world...
...work-"My First Self-Criticism." He duly denounced himself, but he could never quite feel the same again about little Emmi. who had turned him in. From these case-history-hardened boys and girls, the Russians drew the personnel that took over in East Germany. Walter Ulbricht, a grim, humorless and inhuman man. even by Communist standards, was their leader, and Leonhard became one of his lieutenants. But in 1949 he fled to Yugoslavia, sided with Tito against Moscow, but remained a Marxist. The book is fascinating as a sort of Communist Candide-but it is far less amusing...
...Colin's latest book alone that accounted for the waspish notices. Since success plucked at his turtlenecked sweater, Author Wilson has revealed a bumptious streak of humorless selfimportance: "I am the most serious man of our age." Early this year, the most serious man of our age proved that life can be dangerous for an Outsider inadvertently caught indoors (TIME, March 4). His girl friend's father nearly scrambled the egghead with a horsewhip after bursting in on the cozy couple with some gaslit stage dialogue: "Aha, Wilson, the game...
...Hawkins wanders through a bargain basement jungle and holds forth with humorless impunity against the bourgeois idiom and the "rude, smelly shoppers...