Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acknowledge your note of inquiry of recent date. I had read the article in TIME with a good deal of amusement. I could not add surprise, as I have been in politics too long to be surprised when misquoted or misrepresented. I suppose I have too much sense of humor to be puritanical concerning a joke. The story in TIME was inexact. For instance I did not make a speech and I never made a speech in Montreal, and of course, I did not in Montreal or elsewhere say 'To hell with Mr. Volstead...
About two years ago while seeking an opening for placing a loan application in a local bank I asked a Mr. Mackey, New Accounts manager, which banker was in the best humor for an approach. In determining from me the exact purpose of my mission Mackey asked if I would submit collateral and my answer was that I had, for the benefit of the business concerned, some building & loan shares. He most graciously advised me that, in his opinion, anyone who would keep their cash in building & loan and then impose upon their banker for commercial loans should have their...
Lawyer Drummond has kept sane in the midst of her bewildering subject by keeping a tight grip on her sense of humor. She calls attention to a Kentucky case in which "a separation due to the wife's refusal to cohabit at all with her spouse is metaphorically described as 'an unfortunate failure to guide the marital craft into the port of happiness.' " If you like cider you may be pleased to learn that habitual use of it, not amounting to habitual drunkenness, is not grounds for divorce in New Hampshire...
Just to make things more difficult Poet Cummings has a vivid if erratic sense of humor. Many of his more intricate effects are meant as jokes. Plodding enthusiasts cannot always tell which is which...
Primarily "just history," The Old-Time Saloon is written with serious humor, earmarked here & there as Ade-made. With a crocodile tear in his eye, Author Ade describes an oldtime Kentucky belle: "You could span her waist with your two hands but she couldn't sit down in a tub." He recounts the feat of Tom Heath, who was ejected from an Irish saloon on St. Patrick's Day "because he ate the shamrocks on the bar, thinking they were watercress...