Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compromise. . . Frugality is a part of his being. . . To him, life is work. . . In the largest sense of the word he is a patient man. . . No one can throw him into a panic, for he sees life steadily and sees it whole. . . Has he a sense of humor? Emphatically...
Calvin Coolidge. "Has he a sense of humor? Emphatically...
...POTTERS?Revealing with homely humor that the American family has about all the human nature there...
...automobile, yelled: "I want to rope a red-headed goil." He did, but she turned out to be a blonde, so he let her go. Every silk hat within a rope's length was regarded as legitimate prey and Londoners took it all with marked good humor. One body of men who quite overawed the excited "cowpeople" were the London "bobbies;" they were not molested. British stockholders in various Anglo-American brewery companies formed an "Individual Liberty League" "to obtain from the United States Governnent for shareholders in Anglo-American breweries compensation for losses sustained through Prohibition." Earl Birkenhead...
...little effect upon impressionable audiences. But it lacks "charm". For a long time, American politics have lacked charm. And this is most unfortunate. As the great need of politics today, according to any resume of authoritative opinion, is for clean-cut college men, some element of fascination--subtlety, humor, finesse--must be introduced to keep them from the book-binding profession, and the lure of bonds. One does not suggest, of course, that modern politics are quite as frank and bluff and straightforward as some would have us believe. But mere trickery and deception is not particularly appealing, nor even...