Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blatz, Miller and Gettelman breweries; lifted girls' skirts and stamped "O.K." on their thighs; goosed the citizenry either by hand or by newfangled mechanical devices; trickled water on feminine legs; stopped traffic by playing pinochle on streetcar tracks, in general caroused and roistered with all their old muscular humor...
...audience loves it and for a good reason. The Wookey is something that a large part of the English-speaking world still delights in: the humor of Punch, Every character, every situation, every line in the play (except a few words spoken out that Punch would print as -s) has had its counterpart in Punch during the last 100 years. The Wookey, a grandchild of this traditional British humor, proves that there is still life in the Punch line...
...sequence on saluting is repeated to emphasize its technique. Instructions are given with an air of firm informality. There is a forgivable touch of propaganda: Crows a rookie: "If they treated me any better, I'd be suspicious." There is also a touch of ironic humor: A sergeant stands outside the post cinemansion with a rookie, pointing out the customers' identifying insignia. When he has worked up to the rank of general, he suggests that they step over to the library. For, says he: "We probably won't be seeing any generals here...
...ability to make extremely good motion pictures has long belonged to George Gregory La Cava, a grizzled, balding, vigorous little man with an irrepressible fund of humor, a fierce integrity, and an unholy belligerence that has kept him in hot water most of his life. He made his first feature picture (Restless Wives, with Doris Kenyon and Edna May Oliver) 17 years ago at the Astoria Studios on Long Island...
Cartoonist Price's first big dent in U.S. humor was made with a New Yorker drawing depicting a man floating near the ceiling over his bed, while his wife remarks casually to a visitor: "He's been up for three weeks now, and there's nothing we can do about it." Since then Price has specialized in a sort of incongruity that borders on surrealism. Key to his humor is the casual gravity with which his long-faced, sprain-skulled characters regard the most highly improbable situations. Drawn with a fast line that gives them the appearance...