Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austria, under a foreign-supported and schismatic dictatorship (see p. 20), is the only nation to produce underground rebels with a sense of humor. Their best joke: to distribute an official-looking notice on counterfeit police stationery warning the populace to defend itself against ordinary criminals because all the energies of the police were required to catch political criminals...
...months since stately old President Ellen Fitz Pendleton had announced that she would like to resign, they had weighed 100 candidates, quizzed 1,000 alumnae, to find a woman who combined "intellectual honesty, leadership, tolerance, savoir jalre, sympathetic understanding of youth, vision, and a sense of humor." Satisfied that they had at last discovered such a paragon, Wellesley's trustees asked Oberlin (Ohio) College's Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee to become Ellen Pendleton's successor and Wellesley's seventh president...
Competently acted, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford's humor derives chiefly from the sight of Jean Arthur smashing a plaster skull and a large vase over William Powell's head, from a morgue scene in which Actor Powell lifts the dead jockey's arm into view, asks his assistant to give him a hand. "You've already got one," says the assistant...
...Deeds" has extraordinarily high entertainment value, perhaps because the humor springs from so many diverse sources. There are the familiar escapades of a young man's first bender: Gary, dressed in alcoholic simplicity, feeds doughnuts to appreciative horses. Then there is Gary's irrepressible exuberence; he jumps on hurtling fire engines, and wields his homicidal right whenever he is sufficiently annoyed. There is a travesty on the legal profession, and the lawyers, choice victims ever since Plato's time, take another merry trouncing. There is a mirthful experiment in indoor reverberation and a comical discourse on abnormal psychology, debunking...
...estimable Jack Oakie sparkles winningly in a good, simple, swift paced movie called "Florida Special". His amusing antics and rapid-fire humor show to advantage in the midst of the customary variety of characters including a wealthy old capitalist, his very spoiled niece, a charming hostess, the inevitable handsome playboy, and an assortment of gangsters. Young Jane Withers brings up the rear in a companion piece, a screen adaption of Tarkington's "Gentle Julia," which informs the fans for the current year that the nineties were gay and that true love conquers...