Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the start London knew the robot bomb for what it was-a new weapon of terrible power. It was never something to be shrugged off with British humor and contempt for the bloody Nazis. It was a weapon which struck again & again & again, 18 hours at a stretch. Even its sound-effects were potent: a throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained...
...homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and lug themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courage-and that is Ernie Pyle's war. He knows it as well as anyone and writes about it better than anyone...
...Hollywood. When a high-school graduating class sings America the Beautiful, the voices are touchingly inchoate, the singers' faces as stolidly reverent, and the shot of the Lincoln statue which begins the song and the meowing cat which ends it, are a deft, valid blend of showmanship, humor and yard-wide Americanism. The wounded men in Since You Went Away really look wounded, for almost the first time in a U.S. fiction war film. There are scores of such evidences of a smart showman's eye, mind and heart. Added up, they give the picture taste, shrewdness, superiority...
...Little Enemy Ann" (as she calls herself) gets off some humor at times. We all get a kick out of the way she refers to us as "Honorable Boneheads...
...borned?" When Anna said, "1712," the King asked, "How many years shall you be married?" When Anna replied, "Several years," the monarch thought hard, finally roared out, "How many grandchildren shall you have by now? Ha, ha! How many?" The King had won. It put him in such good humor that he took Anna by the hand and led her to his wives and his 67 children...