Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money-man Shively when he spotted a Treasury statement in which "lawful money" erroneously appeared as "awful money." Another typical Shively item appearing last December: "The latest issue (July) of the illustrated monthly magazine, U. S. S. R. in Construction, to reach this country has a bit of Tartar humor in the caption to a photograph. It reads: 'General View of the Proletarian Section, Moscow.' Presumably that is the part of town where only the poor people live...
...picture Dix put a touch of humor. Five men stand with an amazing indifference and nonchalance before a savage looking officer who has evidently done his best to call them to attention. They are of all sizes and shapes, and their ragged uniforms either hang off them limply or are far too small. But even this humor has a grim side, for the faces of the soldiers plainly show evidence of their privations and sufferings...
...been the intention of this reviewer to present "Ceiling Zero" as a dull play, for that would not be accurate reporting. Rather let us say that the play is free from impressive content of thrills or humor. It is well acted by a capable cast, starring Robert Ober, who would do much better, we feel, if he attempted to control the incessant and annoying movement of his eyebrows. Sandra Greene and several other pretty females dash about, adding zest and color to the proceedings. It's light fare which should prove soothing to exam-roughened palates...
...another Claudette Colbert picture in what has become the traditional Colbert manner. It tells the story of a pugnacious girl (Claudette Colbert) and an aggressive man (Fred MacMurry) who fight and love one another. It is amusing in a rather mild way, but it does not have the robust humor of "It Happened One Night." Each of the pictures in the cycle that has followed the latter triumph has been less light, and more dependent on tenuous plots and slapstick humor. However, the two stars, with the assistance of Robert Young, make all they can of the material with which...
Several times during the past year TIME has, in its own inimitable manner, made very free and impudent references to me and my work. It might possibly be more civilized albeit less amusing to print something on the other side. Would it do violence to your sense of humor to pay some public attention to facts...