Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shaw are the only two people who can outtalk me. I had the President stopped. . . . While I was in there we fixed up all the affairs of the world. The only thing we didn't get to was Al Smith and Huey Long. . . . The President was in fine humor and he told the jokes. Said Pennsylvania, the second richest State, was the only one that had passed the tin cup for relief from the Federal Government. He laughed and got a kick out of this...
...worried about this money hoarding. When we were on this subject the President looked directly and severely at me and asked me: "Write a joke against these hoarders. Humor might show 'em how foolish they are. Now, go do that." So after all my kidding about Hoover Commissions, I am finally on one, "The Hoover Anti-hoarding Joke Commission...
Producer Harris, who has a sense of humor as well as a sense of publicity, turned the letter over to the newspapers. Librettist Kaufman handsomely offered to delete the scene if the Bishop would write a substitute equally funny. Consul General Count Charles de Fontnouvelle, interviewed, remembered having seen Of Thee I Sing...
Notwithstanding, it must be said that it was interesting. Maybe more interesting because of it, since the material was admirably chosen and the selections were stimulating--full of humor and dash. However, I am of the opinion that the lecture might have been even more refreshing, although not so unified, if at least two or three introductions by different men to the same writer's works has been mixed up a bit. At least it would have been more of a game for the student to locate and tag the lecture...
While the U. S. was approving the Mills advancement as a well-earned promotion for a smart young man. Britain was generally acclaiming the Mellon appointment. The new Ambassador had prestige, tact, humor, wealth. He had nothing more to learn in the matter of intergovernmental debts. His love of fine arts endeared him to a cultured aristocracy. But Ambassadors to the Court of St. James's, in the past, have usually been felicitously articulate, if not downright oratorical. Between them and all Britons is the bond of a mother tongue. Speeches were always in order?the smooth elegancies...