Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private lives of Hitler's two "also-ran" fellow dictators. Mussolini is very much the family man, but there is no evidence that Signora Mussolini or the several little Mussolinis have had any softening effect on his political methods or tempered his jowly egotism with a sense of humor. The most power-crazy and pitiless of all the iron-chewers, Stalin, has taken time off from purging to marry twice and beget a daughter,* still in her teens, but if his love for her has made him go down on his hands and knees and say "Woof, woof...
Until two years ago he played touch football twice a week with his students. To his students Dr. Nash is known also as a man with an encyclopedic memory and a sense of humor, brusque in speech, sharp in thought. His favorite expression: "It's as plain as a pikestaff, gentlemen." Liberal in politics, he is president of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a charter member of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. He was surprised but glad to get the St. Paul's job, for he believes religion should be the centre of education and St. Paul...
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...French (Paramount). Screwball comedy raised a few notches above average by the presence in the cast of three masters of offhand humor, Olympe Bradna (Stolen Heaven), Ray Milland (Three Smart Girls), William Collier Sr. (Madison Square Garden, The Bride Comes Home...
Written in collaboration with Ann Honeycutt McKelway, ex-wife of the New Yorker's Editor St. Clair McKelway, the book takes a crack at almost every other amateur theory and legend about dogs, their likes & dislikes, habits and diseases. Because the authors have a sense of humor, the book manages to get across painlessly a good many answers to such questions as how to get a dog and how to feed, train and take care of him once you do. Some sound advice for city dog-owners: never buy a grown dog; never put a puppy on the street...