Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this long experience Henry Fletcher emerged with inscrutability, good humor, patience and a shrewd tongue. He could say sharp, cutting things when he wanted to. To a U. S.-hating Chilean who once remarked that he would not buy even a shoestring made in the U. S., Diplomat Fletcher replied: "I'm sorry the cable office isn't open today. I'd cable the President that the American shoe string industry is ruined." When Ambassador Dawes asserted that diplomacy "is easy on the head but hell on the feet," Mr. Fletcher quietly observed: "It depends on which...
...confirmed by a small Literary Digest poll indicating that the New Deal had lost 10% of its supporters since the Digest's big poll in May; and finally verified by Franklin Roosevelt's much advertised turn to the right, his effort to smile business back into good humor...
Sennett herself proved to be an almost infallible barometer of public taste. Biographer Fowler denies his sense of humor but says ''perhaps he had the greatest sense of the ridiculous of any man in modern times." When he laughed at a gag, audiences were sure to howl over it. The roster of his employes reads like a Hollywood Hall of Fame: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin...
...prior to 1926 one of those teams had been beaten by the other by large scores, a fact which resulted at first in the outgrowth of much idle talk and friendly criticism involving the type of playing which the victor had used. As the months were on that informal humor became more serious as the comments ran to the personal and untrue. What before had been mere rivalry now turned into hate with each side attempting to outvie the other. Words turned to threats and jokes to nasty accusations. One of those teams then tried to replace her rival with...
Whatever may be the truth of the other charges against him, no one can accuse Candidate Robart of lacking a sense of humor. The sound truck which states that he should be elected sheriff yesterday went through the square playing "I Never Had A Chance...