Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Policeman Thomas Henry Leary of Cambridge, Mass., a political clown well above average in his humor, last week wound up his campaign ("Be Wary of Leary") to avoid election as a delegate to the State Democratic Convention (TIME, Sept. 19), by ringing doorbells at dead of night, begging irate voters not to vote for him. He reported his campaign expenditures: 20? for rotten tomatoes for boys to throw at a "Vote for Leary" sign; 5? for a false mustache to frighten babies. He vowed, if elected (which local observers last week predicted he would be), to campaign for lifting...
...write melodies that get inside of people and do something to them. Franz Lehar could still give him a lesson in Schmalzmusik. But a song is words and music, and nobody ever fused words and music more effectively than Rodgers & Hart. When Rodgers' melodic line expresses gaiety, sadness, humor, Hart's lyrical line invariably complements and fulfills it. The lyrical slant may not be as sophisticated or clever as Cole Porter's. The melody may resort to chromatic tricks that such a perfect craftsman as Vincent Youmans would reject as unsound. But a Rodgers & Hart song usually...
...greatest show of human antics on earth takes place at Nürnberg, the grey-walled medieval city which up-to-date Nazis have made the busy world hub of antiSemitism. Annually it is swamped by some 1,500,000 Germans, bursting with health, who arrive in high good humor for their yearly emotional spree, the Parteitag. Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa, and Frau Mathilde Ludendorff, widow of the great German Wartime strategist. Today she zealously crusades...
...terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly when he is half dead. Once they find a substitute outlet in a fantastic rat-hunt-the high point of Sandemose's grotesque humor...
THEY CAN'T HANG ME-James Ronald -Crime Club ($2). Ex-newspaper publisher, shut up in an asylum for 18 years as a homicidal maniac, escapes with the intention of murdering the men who had him locked up. Clever plot, spiced with humor...