Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right note was sounded when Lieutenant Towne suggested a permanent concession behind Chase designed to improve the humor and up the efficient of all midshipmen during these sweltering days. But Boston's beer supply would never bear the strain. We'll just have to wait for that long New England winter...
...During his 40 years in Republican politics, eight of them (1929-37) as U.S. Senator from Delaware, Rip Van Winkle Hastings was widely known for his good humor...
Another thing that impresses Dr. Gray is the courage and sense of humor of the average American boy. "Coming out of Tarawa we had to amputate a young marine's leg. He cried a little bit when we told him we had to do it. But next morning when I asked him how he felt, he grinned 'Okay! There's not so much of me to hurt now.' There was another kid who was in extremis when we brought him aboard. He had been shot from only a few feet away...
...radio, Norman Corwin's "My Client Curley" was a delightful trip into whimsy that was well-nigh a perfect blend of lilting humor and that indefinable thing called heart. On the screen, "Once Upon A Time" is an agreeable dose of fantasy that has lost the deft Corwin touch in the hands of Hollywood scriptwriters and turns out good when it should have been tops...
...Indian Heart. Her only rival as an imaginative creation is Dr. Aziz. With his emotionalism, his ready tears, his hunger for affection and his sudden patronizing of the people who respond to it, his humor and his brilliant discourses on the Mogul Emperors, his absentmindedness (after he had arranged his mighty expedition to the famed Marabar Caves he asked: "By the way, what is in these caves, brother? Why are we going to see them?"), Dr. Aziz tells U.S. readers more about the secret places of the Indian heart than any living Indian...