Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high good humor the Moroccan rebels launched their invasion of Spain proper. A troopship loaded with Legionnaires put in at Algeciras near Gibraltar. A rebel torpedo boat shelled the undecided garrison at La Linea, which thereupon joined the revolt. But when La Linea citizens, watching black Moorish troops march into barracks, refused to disperse, the Moors mowed them down with machine guns, blasted them with hand grenades, left La Linea's streets littered with dead. In thousands of commandeered cars, the rebels pushed north, fanning out along the railroads leading toward Madrid...
...rope trick in London's Albert Hall for $275,000. He has invented a thought-reading machine called a psychostethokyrtographmanometer which he intends to demonstrate in the U. S. this year. He believes Armageddon may come in 1937. Like many another prominent mystic, he has no sense of humor...
...about to marry for the third time. Husband No. 3 was to be Captain Boerge Rohde, tall, flaxen-haired member of King Christian's Life Guards. Kammerjunker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Kaptajn Rohde, his fiancee confided, was 42, musically inclined, a graceful dancer, a man of wit & humor. They had met at His Majesty's New Year's Eve court ball seven months ago. In 1903 Ruth Bryan married a U. S. artist named William Homer Leavitt, bore him two children before divorcing him in 1909. Next year her marriage to Major Reginald Altham Owen of Britain...
...Publisher Knox, then a good-natured candidate for the GOP nomination, was supposed to have been highly amused at this piece of intramural impertinence, let O'Brien's copy go through to press unedited. Last week Vice Presidential Nominee Knox's sense of political humor was put to another and sterner test when Columnist O'Brien indicated in print that he would vote the Roosevelt-Garner ticket next November...
...working as a servant. Said she: ''Yes, I'm Mrs. Ted Coy. How on earth did you find me here? . . . I haven't any money. . . . Once I went five days in this town without a bite to eat. . . . I thank God for a sense of humor. If I didn't have it I'd have been bad off these months since Ted died...