Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week were a cozy little standful. Women, crowding around the Royal Enclosure, had a chance to gawk at the Queen's pale lavender costume, with hat and shoes to match. In the paddock, folks got a good look at the King, noted his more than usual good humor. For the first time in the history of British horse racing, the Royal Stables were on the verge of winning all four of England's classic races for three-year-olds...
There he sat at table with a broken-down laboratory assistant, a lavender college student, a mousy-genteel kleptomaniac widow, a moth-eaten elocutionist, a stale bibliophile who dismissed all ideas with "forgive my sense of humor"—a gallery which should convince almost everybody that Wells, like Dickens, is no caricaturist of English life but a dispenser of literal and horrifying truth. And there Teddy ran foul of two "overripe virgins," bleached Miss Blame and malapropist Miss Birkenhead, who once spent six months in Paris, calls her Paris sugar daddy her faux...
Walt Disney on esthetics: "Art? ... I looked up the definition once, but I've forgotten what it is ... you got to watch out for the boys with the dramatic sense and no sense of humor or they'll go arty on you. . . . Hell, Doc ... we just make a picture and then you professors come along and tell us what...
Italy has had a visible sense of humor, from the time of the commedia dell 'arte. Italians can still crack jokes (however unoriginal) about their miseries. From Lisbon last week New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, on his way home from Rome, sent revealing samples: > Benito Mussolini visited a fortuneteller who told him that he would die on the eve of Italy's greatest holiday. She was unable to tell him just which day that was. When he asked his wife her opinion, she replied: "I know. It's the day after...
...bootlegger, ex-Klansman, ex-Coughlinite and a black hater of Jews, Communists and Roosevelt last week provided the first humor thus far in the Government's crackdown on "vermin publications." Square-jawed Court Asher, Muncie, Ind. publisher of XRay, was defending his weekly before Washington postal authorities, who gave him until June 2 to show cause why his paper should not be banned for sedition...