Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Poles interned in the Soviet area after the German-Russian Pact. A 37-year-old journalist assigned to the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Pruszynski was there when General Sikorski arrived to negotiate with Stalin for their release. Pruszynski's observation is keen, his humor quick and spontaneous. Russian Year is possibly the best firsthand report on Russia since the war began...
Gloria Swanson and Ralph Forbes in the respective roles of Katherine and David succeed in making this rather absurd lovers' quarrel completely believable. Lynn Carter makes an attractive pick-up girl and injects a much-needed note of natural humor. Doubling in the role of author and actor, Harold Kennedy plays the faithful friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen...
...greatest of his present worries is weather, then among the least of his worries is how history will rate him. Toward such concerns Eisenhower maintains an attitude of Kansas common sense, mildly sarcastic good humor, military fatalism. Because all his big troubles
...your cut line under the picture of the advance-zone barbershop with its witty price list (TIME, May 8) you attempt to interpret G.I. humor, with I wonder what results. The barber probably thought his manicure "for officers only" was just as funny as the one about awarding the Purple Heart for his razor nicks...
...world today, Churchill the historian selected his facts with an eye singly on victory-"this single and dominant purpose." He did not pretend to tell all the facts; to have done so would have helped the enemy. Instead he chose his words with skill, with British good humor, with the air of an artist conscious of his own performance. Aware that both friend & foe were listening, he said...