Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characteristic which will make this book popular among the reading public is the sincerity, wisdom, and quiet humor of the author. The people he talks about are described with the greatest reality, yet they frequently remind the reader of various rustic characters in fiction. But aside from the fictional element, the book contains a wealth of information on disorders of the body and their treatment. These are exact but not pedantically scholarly, so that the reader absorbs a great deal of medical information without realizing...
...minded portrayals of pathos in Manhattan's sober poor have given him the greater reputation. Last week his first one-man show since 1935, at the Valentine Gallery, brought 14th Street impressively to fashionable 57th. In Soyer's accomplished paintings of Greenwich Village characters there was neither humor nor brilliance but a great deal of dun truth...
...from and the simplest language, and to count on Mr. Young to do the rest. For example, when it is offered as an excuse to invite the doctor to dinner that he is still there, Roland drily explains that he won't be if he leaves. Some of the humor is indeed more complex than this sample. Some of it is even vaguely satirical. But none of it is funnier than his mumbled, halting, nonchalant announcements of the ultra-obvious. And that is somehow extremely funny...
...some, gallantly according to all. Yet the curt Stock Exchange announcement declared last week that there was "evidence" that this Groton-bred Harvard man's company had been guilty of "conduct apparently contrary to just and equitable principles of trade." The Street promptly cracked in its usual savage humor that "Snow White had become a Dwarf...
...hailed the work as "pure music," complained that he was holding out on them. Wailed crotchety Britisher Ernest Newman: "With each new work of Strauss there is the same tomfoolery-one can use no milder word to describe proceedings that no doubt have a rude kind of German humor, but that strike other people as more than a trifle silly...