Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whiz Bang, magazine of washroom humor. Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett used to refer often to "the henna-haired heckler," meaning his wife. Antoinette Fisher Fawcett. Of late such references have been absent. Publisher Fawcett last month got a divorce for infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite." Last week the "heckler"?who prefers to call herself "the red headed dynamo" or "Animated Annette" found a new way to heckle her ex-spouse. With her first alimony checks she bought a neighboring bawdy joke-book called the Calgary Eye Opener, prepared to compete with Captain Billy...
...that faced M. Herriot and Mr. MacDonald last week. After a three-hour conference and a formal luncheon, the two statesmen motored out to Versailles, wandered together around Queen Marie Antoinette's "Play Village," had tea with Socialite Sir Charles Mendl, motored back to Paris in high good humor, dined at the British Embassy and left next morning for Switzerland on the same train...
Like most Caesars, Blount Marvel is divided into two parts. His better half, Leda, was born more sophisticated than Blount will ever be, but she loves him for his pink & white good humor, his boyish manliness. When he is sent to Washington as Representative from a backward Southern State, Leda accompanies him, cooks, washes dishes, keeps their flat as homelike as Blount's narrow purse will allow. From a small glass works back home comes all his spending money. Leda fears that Blount's political career will be cramped, his radiant self-assurance dimmed. After a few days...
Commented the superpatriotic Chicago Tribune: "They will be a disturbance wherever they go if not a potential danger. . . . The bummers were said to be in good humor, but there was the nucleus of a destructive mob. ... If this is a lark, what's a riot...
...take the Hollywood conception of high life in Paris and New York with tongue in cheek, the picture will be an amusing if not an uplifting experience. Ruth Chatterton, suave as usual, is utterly and almost disconcertingly competent. Her leading man, the aforementioned Brent, provides a background of quiet humor and not a little charm, and gives a performance more polished than the inveterate movie goer is accustomed to see in this...