Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until a successor could be found. While foreign correspondents in Tokyo were trying desperately to puzzle out what this meant, just as suddenly Prince Konoye emerged as his own successor, threw together a new Cabinet. "I am struck with a sense of great awe," observed Prince Konoye with high humor, "because of my poor ability...
...much) and wines. He is a bouncing, lusty, easy-smiling man, lighting into his work each morning with something of the same sort of heavy, rolling eagerness that his big Hampshire porkers show in running for the day's first trough. He has a rich country sense of humor, loves long, involved, chronicle jokes, and has the heartiest laugh in the Cabinet-a booming roar that makes other people chuckle all the way out the White House lobby...
...conscious humor of the week was furnished by beetle-browed little Foreign Vice Commissar Solomon Lozovsky, that colorful Old Bolshevik who holds the record of having escaped from prison more times than any living Communist. New Spokesman for the U.S.S.R., in a press conference he referred to the "shocking fact" that Albania had declared war on the Soviet Union. This step, said he, was taken under the direction of "Italy's Al Capone, known as Mussolini." As for the German claims of mighty victories, said Funnyman Lozovsky, "they remind me of the story of the hunter who shouted...
Nobody ever accused Japan or Germany of having a sense of humor; and only they could have staged the puppet show that amused the world last week. One by one Germany's battery of stooges-Rumania, Croatia, Slovakia, Italy and Bulgaria-announced they would recognize Japan's Wang Ching-wei and his marionette Government in Nanking. Germany did likewise. This was Germany's bid for Japan's help, or at least good will, in the Russo-German...
Simply and frankly, Chiang discusses all phases of the national struggle with the Chinese people-without concealments, without false optimism, without a misplaced sense of humor. When the Chinese Armies evacuated Wuhan in 1938, Chiang immediately explained the reasons...