Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were written, and fill it now more than ever. To the cry of inflation, he retorts with the magic word reflation, with the absolute need and desirability of a controlled expansion of credit. To the preposterous moral arguments about the abrogation of the gold clause, he replies with humor, and point to the obvious realities regarding promises to pay in gold that extend far beyond the resources of banks and governments. The curious and widely-accepted talk about the New Deal's communism or fascism, he answers with the support given it in those years by the representatives...
...humor is of a much lustier breed. Much of it is simply the practical joke. At least one third of the gags, for example, are built about a broken-down illiterate cowboy star's being baited by two mad pranksters, who would seem to be the only two brains in Holly-wood. Roy Roberts, in the role of one of these, probably carries off the acting honors. He represents a scenario writer who would much rather be back in Vermont writing a book of the soil, and who consequently treats his associates, especially the cowboy and the preposterously pedantic boss...
...purveyed by the new syndicate had a heavy rural cast. As a possible substitute for the wise saws of the late Humorist Will Rogers, which McNaught Syndicate sold to 500 newspapers, Esquire Features offered a daily 150-word gag from Bob Burns, onetime vaudevillian whose radio hillbilly and cinema humor and music on a home-made "bazooka" were last week estimated in Variety to be earning him $400,000 a year."* Pictorial humor was to be furnished by Esquire Cartoonist Paul Webb's "Mountain Boys," a group of grotesque, bearded, barefooted figures. In the current Esquire one of them...
...self-described, at an Advocate smoker, "smuggled into an upper chamber, and kept quiet with cigars while they heckled me in true undergraduate fashion. I think I held my own; I tried to." We may be sure that she did. Here is the sincerity, the generosity, the fearlessness, the humor, and the irrepressible love of fun that made Amy Lowell what she was and remains
...fact gambling eases him over a great many of his obstacles. And the effect on the audience is very pleasing, because it saves them a lot of worrying and figuring out how he can get out of this or that scrape. "Swing Time" offers anyone with a sense of humor a very pleasant evening...