Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This gag, Greek to the average reader, has a mystic meaning to the New Yorker staff which publishes it once a year. It is a memorial to a type of U.S. humor which The New Yorker helped to bury...
...Congressional leaders on his rendezvous with Churchill, written by Correspondent Chesly Manly, said that "the grand strategy of the new Anglo-American-Russian alliance" included "the assistance of a vast American expeditionary force." When the President read that report he hit the ceiling. Steve Early, in no playful humor, called Senator Barkley, Representative Sol Bloom, other leaders in whom Roosevelt had confided, and accused them of misrepresenting the President's remarks. Hopping mad, the Congressmen elected Senator Barkley to go after Correspondent Manly...
Some will read this book for the Hogarthian gusto of its descriptions, humor, writing. Some will read it for the great familiar story of the war with its almost too literary climax of Lincoln's death at the moment of victory. Others, in the mood of another great struggle for U.S. survival, will read it for its swarming picture of a people's energies, creating out of next to nothing the greatest armies and armaments the world had seen, bursting into rowdyism, drinking, drabbing, killing, doggedly enduring continual defeat until the strength had been built up for ultimate...
...address the Chicago Convention which first named him for the Presidency-Franklin Roosevelt returned. He returned not to wave his hat to a cheering crowd, but to face his White House press corps -including the men who usually defend him from all critics and laugh at his humor-this time hopping...
...closest U.S. equivalent, a student-leadership institute at President Roosevelt's summer house in Campobello, New Brunswick, a group of would-be young U.S. leaders chanted it lustily last week, thereby pointing out a distinction: a democracy's leaders must have a sense of humor...