Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the dead pan that British humor loves, London's Sunday Dispatch published a full-page "Civilians' Guide to Invasion (of Europe)." Typical counsel...
...advertisement for a shaving lotion; this emptiness with the avid, frightened eyes; this sometimes slinking, sometimes hopping, never naturally moving form with its narrow shoulders [and] ridiculously correct suit"; this man who exhorted them "with all the semi-education of his age," using "miserable German . . . defective logic . . . tasteless humor . . . false pathos," and subjected them to "alternate whining and brutality...
...working newsmen, but it left the field open to every reader, expected 1,000 entries. Heading its announcement was a statement of the goal by Walter Lippmann: "The attainment of full freedom requires rising standards of competence, responsibility, fairness, objectivity, disinterestedness, and indeed of charity, chivalry and good humor, in using the mighty engine of a free press. By this criterion we must recognize that we could do better...
...almost alone now) the untamed crudity, savage innocence, feral force and daft grandeur of that Medicean cinemera. Much of the malice, many of the rumors, and most of the moral solemnity which are directed against her tell less about Lolly Parsons than about the loss of heart, toughness and humor in the changing world around her. She is wielding a halberd among the gas-masked, and the lawyers of war do not approve...
...What Lewis contributes is a childlike simplicity (not to be confused with naivete) that is the essence of the Christian spirit, and which pierces all obscuring subterfuges of thought and language to fix and define the simple moral and religious points he is making. He also contributes a swift humor that humanizes what might otherwise be bald homilies...