Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes, it also gives the funny bone a workout, what with Mr. James Durante giving out raucous and riotons as a has-been actor making a come-back. Durante's real-life comeback gives his nostalgic character job much pathos and effect, along with his side-splitting humor. And with Young Man with a Horn Harry James tooting a mean tube, Gracie Allen going through the paces of her one-fingered piano comedy-classic, and Jose Iturbi doing some serious and dignified ivory-tickling, "Two Girls and A Sailor" has something of just about everything...
Placid Surface. Philadelphians general ly accepted the discomforts and irritations of the tie-up with Quakerlike placidity-and even with some good humor. Ration boards stayed open until late at night, issuing emergency gasoline rations to any A-card holder who promised to carry a earful with him. The Army & Navy pressed hundreds of jeeps and trucks into service to keep production going at the Army Ordnance Depot and the Navy Yard. But the Philadelphia transit system regularly carries 1,150,000 persons a day. Thousands had to walk, on days when the thermometer shot to 97 degrees...
...position somewhat delicate, if he did not have a talent for friendly collaboration. He gets along famously with Brereton, who speaks his mind bluntly in conferences, and sometimes joshes Coningham on the amount of paper work which his greater responsibility entails. They work together with the easy good humor of a doubles team at tennis-now groomed for their greatest tournament...
When Coningham arrived in North Africa three years ago to fight Britain's air war in the desert, his hair was still dark, almost black. Now, at 49, it is silver grey. But he has never lost an atom of his bouncing confidence, overflowing energy, infectious good humor. While ground commanders replaced one another as their fortunes ebbed & flowed along the Mediterranean shores, Coningham stayed on as the R.A.F. chief in the field...
...seemed to make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless innuendos from her husky throat, Actress West caught some of the aplomb, humor and matchless vulgarity of her "Come up and see me some time." But pretty soon her unvaried role began to pull and so, soon after, did her unvarying way of playing...