Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...healthy and intelligent, but, more important than everything else, they must be emotionally well-balanced. The strain of a war patrol is too great for the man with quirks, for sourpusses or incurable practical jokers. Thus sub men have an air of pipe-smoking imperturbability and quiet good humor that no other group of fighting men can match...
What is the truth about Cliffe girls? We'l, nobody will deny that they're intelligent. A good many of them have fine senses of humor. But when it comes to beauty, there's a minority that George White wouldn't be ashamed of mixed in among a vast majority of twisted-seamed, straight haired, bespectacled young women, who are, aesthetically speaking, nonenties. The trick is to pick the sheep from the goats...
After last week's race, the men in the press box were ready to forgive Hagg all this puckery humor. In awed silence, they watched him take off his shoes and patter barefoot over the scorching concrete of the stadium to the broadcasting booth. There, impassive as a totem pole, he stood before a microphone, said hello to his countrymen back home...
...Comic-strip artists use word distortions for definite purposes - for humor, to indicate common slurrings, to convey the sound of a dialect. Examples (from Smilin' Jack and Popeye): a-gettin' , ah'm, aihport, fergit, yam (for am), ast, certingly, goner (for going...
...contents apparently made the President happy. At his press conference next day, Franklin Roosevelt bubbled with good cheer. The Old Optimist was in high good humor. Relations between himself and Joseph Stalin, he told the newsmen, were excellent...