Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neither holding the nation's hand nor slapping the nation's back, several dependable radio voices helped keep the nation's head clear. CBS's William L. Shirer, in never-flustered tones, anticipated President Roosevelt in explaining what war meant in terms of information. Dry humor was provided by CBS's Elmer Davis, who snorted gently at Hitler's bombast about "a year of greatest decision." Said Elmer: "To judge from the precedent of the past two years, he's going to have to put the same old record...
...River (book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; music by Sigmund Romberg; produced by Max Gordon) attempts to revive big-scale, full-throated operetta without knowing how. It seizes on the cobwebs of the oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering humor have everybody's nostalgia in full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs the gamut...
Into the individual tales of the team's Seniors of whom "eight members started the Yale game in their Sophomore year, and for three years they carried the football load for their University," Harlow delves with detail and humor...
...what she writes is guidebook stuff-dutiful chapters on landscape, legends, and the myths of Paul Bunyan (who is by now one of the biggest bores in the whole bleak record of synthetic folklore). There is also a good map and 48 superb photographs. But Mrs. Ross's humor, sensitivity to the ways of a people whose pioneer forefathers are not all dead yet, make Farthest Reach one of the best books written about the North west...
...C.I.O. began its fourth annual convention in old Moose Temple in Detroit, Murray was a footsore, angry man with just enough dry humor left to make one crack. Accepting a gavel from Pittsburgh steelworkers, he remarked wryly that he had had to stop Milwaukee delegates from presenting him with a piece of Wisconsin cheese. Said Murray with his thick Scots burr: "Whilst the intent is good, it obviously would not be in good taste for the President . . . under these circumstances to either accept a ham or a piece of cheese...