Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced, small (5 ft. 6 in.), a neat dresser. His addresses, delivered in falsetto, are usually admonitory, pedagogical. When his party was in power, he used to wear a wide political smile. Now an annoyed frown is usually to be seen behind his pince nez. His lack of humor makes him a perennial target for opposition wags. No one questions his sincerity and within his own ranks he is respected for his devotion to his party. He is a devout Methodist, a 33rd Degree Mason, and the author of fresh-water textbooks on history, physiology, politics, civics. Outside Congress...
Enlivened by many moments of charm and genuine humor this commonplace story is saved from being wholly doleful or depressing. Miss Sullavan is aided considerably by a distinguished group of players in accomplishing this. Mr. Borgage has created a thoroughly German atmosphere in attractive settings and has made the events believable. Miss Sullavan's ability and beauty and the distinguished direction will make you forget all about the shortcomings of the plot...
...shadow of a private insane asylum where Bardamn is director. American readers, perhaps, will be disappointed when "The Journey," which begins as if to be a French "All Quiet on the Western Front" develops into a sort of "Candido." Throughout the whole book there persists the same strange humor to lighten the continued examinations of subjects gross and primitive that are usually neglected in print. In many places M. Destouches has seized upon psychological phases of post-war French attitudes with great skill, capitalizing the fact that he is working with new material, but to the English reading public...
...editorial is not without humor. If it is intentional, my respects to its anonymous author. Herbert E. Robbins...
...will. You might induce some of the impartial police, personally, to join us: Chief Cato. for example. I may ask some picked ranchers to come in on it and your Mr. Secretary Smith could invite the highbrow newspapermen he sees daily. They might have a sense of humor. If the fund should exceed the price of one cheap typewriter I'll keep the difference for the purchase of another if the first one should be wrecked in some righteous raid...