Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garden with their next-door neighbor, Hungary's Count Laszlo Szechenyi. There they dine the diplomats whom it is their job to dine, but otherwise do not entertain inordinately. Aloof and polished William Phillips has many friends but few close ones. In spite of a good sense of humor, he is so cautious and deliberate in his choice of words that he supplies his small world with few bons mots. Iron Man. Occasionally on a sunny afternoon passersby before Woodley, the Washington estate of onetime Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, see a curious sight. On the lawn Host...
...Paramount and Fenway this week offer a balanced diet of harrowing melodrama and rich, lush humor, both clearly above the Hollywood average. And that is praise of a sort, for we do not consider the Hollywood average a butt for sneers of contempt...
...fifty odd men who do not scan the comic sections, 28 freely admitted that they occasionally glance at what has been called America's greatest contribution to humor. But the other 32 disdainfully denied touching the "filthy sheets", for they consider it beneath their dignity as Harvard students...
...high but very courteous good humor, he bore the recriminations which were hurled at him and his treaty. For although the treaty does not go into force until Jan. 1, although its terms were kept secret for 48 hours (to allow for their transmission and simultaneous release in Ottawa) the howls of aggrieved lobbyists had already begun a serenade in Washington. Whether there had been some leak or whether they knew that tariff cuts were due them, the industries affected began to squeal. Lumbermen protested that they were being "sold down the river," dairymen that it would be a crime...
...like human beings; they wear pressed pants and clean hats," he continued, "and they are always in a hurry. Upperclassmen dress uniquely, take their time and can fall asleep on the chair as often as not. Upperclassmen read the Herald while awaiting their turn; freshman study Ballyhoo and Movie Humor...