Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1930, his scrawls of impotent, amorphous men and women and sad-eyed hounds have gained him international fame. They are enormously funny, and like most lasting humor, are the products of an unhappy mind. Three Thurber drawings that his associates on The New Yorker would never print were on view in his exhibition last week. Two were blasphemous: The Thurber Madonna and The Three Wise Men (three goggle-eyed oldsters smirking behind their hands at something that might be the Virgin). The third was The Gates of Life. Glum pedestrians hustled by in the background; sprawled on the grass...
Author Smith's humor depends chiefly on situation but he has the reputation of writing wise-crackling dialog. Random samples: " 'Say, officer,' continued the voice, 'let's waive the dog for a moment.' 'Don't see what good that's going to do,' grumbled the sergeant. 'It certainly won't help the dog any to go waving him about...
...June Lang are prominent in the supporting cast. The story is centered around two temperamental singers, an operetta production in Munich, and two Havarian ingenues who finally leave the glamor of the city and return to the simple pleasures of country life. The acting is burlesqued and lacks the humor and naturalness characteristic of the original...
...fascinating, although less important, quarrel between Italy and Abyssinia. These reports announced that, in a statement apparently signed by Premier Mussolini himself, the Italian government had refused arbitration, maintaining that the case was one of pure aggression on the part of the Ethiopians. This statement has a certain whimsical humor, suggesting an image of the Roman eagle fighting for its life against the black gnats of Africa. Nevertheless, it is certain to be accepted--after a polite minimum of debate--by the League. Italy, like Japan, acts with independence...
...describe just what Miss Enters does for a living, call her a mime. She is not a dancer for she has never made a pirouette in her life. Nor is she an actress for she never speaks a line on the stage. Yet with enormous skill and considerable sly humor she postures and grimaces through pantomime sketches of her own devising in elaborate costumes that she not only designs but sews herself. Eight years of it have given her a comfortable income, scrapbooks full of superlatives in three languages and last spring a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Hellenistic art forms...