Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adolf Hitler all painting is degenerate which either 1) departs from the faithful rendering of natural objects or 2) manifests humor or revulsion at such Nazi ideals as War and Womanhood. Since a great deal of the lively German art of the last 20 years comes under one or both categories, big German galleries have found it politic to pack their modern art collections away in cellars out of reach of Nazi bravos. Nevertheless the Nazi Ministry of Education had a wide field for its selection. Professor Adolf Ziegler of the Reich Chamber of Art, a tall young man with...
...Gentlemen may laugh about a $36,000,000,000 debt hanging over the Treasury of the United States if they wish to, but with all my refined and expanded sense of humor I find it impossible to laugh about such a thing...
Happily back in Holland after all the fun she and her Prince Consort had in England at the time of George VI's Coronation was Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. She was in such high good humor last week that, stepping to the microphone in Amsterdam, Her Royal Highness became the first Crown Princess, and possibly the first woman, to broadcast the news that she is expecting a child. This Juliana did with becoming Dutch delicacy in these words: "Nooit had iets mij kunnen weerhouden alle deelen van het programma mee te maken, waren het niet-op zichzelf...
...hazardous function of the linemen putting up a transmission tower, asks for a job; it ends, after Red falls to his death in a high-wire accident, with Slim climbing a tower in a blizzard to resume the repair job thus interrupted. Told with a drawling, mournful humor, the film builds up to a little epic in the sardonic idiom of one of the world's most necessary, most dangerous, least publicized trades...
Dealing with the story of two reporters -- one female and the other supposedly male (yes, another reporter film), Mr. Raymond's latest vehicle does a swell job confusing pure melo-drama with humor not so pure. At times "There Goes My Girl" is definitely amusing, but the stretches of dialogue between the sparse high spots stretch off into the dim, dim distance. The film is not recommended for exam wearied students. Most trite remark: "What are we, men or mice...