Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand " a spokesman at the White House" who ordinarily gives out the official version of what happens at Cabinet meetings, is usually Secretary Hughes. In the first meeting with the President the correspondents had a surprise. Instead of being reticent Mr. Coolidge was frank and outspoken- full of humor. He spoke with self-confidence. He discussed the questions brought up directly, succinctly. His tone of voice if not commanding was at least full of assurance. He ended with a few humorous remarks and the correspondents ("hard-boiled news gatherers") applauded. It was a distinct success for the new President...
With sandy hair untouched with gray, with clear, calm blue eyes, the new President is slow of speech, dry of humor, sparing of words. He comes from the long line of New England Coolidges. The first of them, John Coolidge, came to this country in 1687. The President is descended from another John Coolidge, a captain in the Revolutionary War, who went from Lancaster, Mass., to Vermont to reestablish his fortunes after...
Ripples of humor, snatches of sentiment are shrewdly set off against two scenes of primitive brutality: 1) a bare-knuckle fight between The Hoboken Terror and Bully Boy Brewster; 2) a whipping post episode where Patricia, under the curling lash, breaks down and repudiates her masculine pretense...
...York Herald: "Stencilled phrases of Humor and Melodrama...
...mainly to be heaped before the door of Miss Lynn Fontanne. This singularly fine English actress (known in America principally for her delightful " Dulcy ") quite carries the play away. Despite her unconquerable English accent, almost Cockney, she gives an amazingly effective portrait of the nitwit heroine. Her sense of humor, her touch for character values are remarkable...