Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President was in high good humor all week. Musing aloud late one afternoon to a handful of reporters, he said he thought that the world had come halfway along the hard road to peace. He thought that the turning point was not the Marshall Plan but the first announcement of the Truman Doctrine (which he modestly called the Greek-Turkish Aid Program) on March 12, 1947. He voiced a hope that in two more years the rehabilitation of 380 million people in Europe will have stabilized a great part of the world...
...ninth-floor office he paced up & down at conferences, a sly, chain-smoking man from whom all humor had gone. Sometimes in the middle of a discussion he stepped outside and came back with a shot of whisky, which he downed straight...
...more pleasant things about Morgan is that he is unlike other radio comedians who seem to aim their programs at the category Life forgot--the no-brows. He eschews the Wilshire Boulevard school of humor, where in an ether buffoon sends a studio audience into unrestrained hysterics at the mere mention of a name such as "Wilshire Boulevard" of "La Brea tarpits." Nor does he open closet doors to the accompanyment of a eacophony of sound effects. If he is going to insult somebody he doesn't call him "baldy...
With the help of the best straight man in radio, Arnold Stang, Morgan manages to parlay his destructive parodies into an average of ten really excellent minutes of humor and twenty satisfactory ones every Sunday night...
...brother Edward, who rose to power as a Liberal politician and later came to a colorful, if disappointing, end. These people had made mistakes, thought Tom, but they had taken chances. They had been of the real England "whose nature was rather affection than passion; whose gaiety was rather humor than wit; whose judgment did not spring from logic but from sense...