Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This short, slight man with the slightly scraggly grey hair has more in common with the late Calvin Coolidge than the fact that he came to power by accident. He has a sardonic sense of humor, a deliberate manner and enormous practical shrewdness, which has earned him the nickname El Zorro (The Fox). He has no hobbies, takes no exercise; his family life consists of daily visits to his daughter Delia's house, where he plays with his grandchildren (see cut, p. 40). A hard, patient worker, in the ten months he has been Acting President he has worked...
...safe middle ground between Bach and boogie-woogie. He has had serious training, learns tunes from phonograph records or by using a magnifying glass and his one fairly good eye. Art Tatum's showers of notes in jazz rhythm-as in his workout with Dvorak's banal Humor-esque-pleased his Carnegie Hall audience. The evening ended in the loudest jam session ever heard in the hall, or perhaps anywhere. There were three bands-33 men in all, including six trumpeters, five drummers, nine pianists scrambling for places at three baby grands. The composition was announced...
...thought. His ability as a scholar has never lessened his interest in the people with whom he deals in the present--his students and assistants--any more than it has hindered him from comprehending deeply the human being in the historical past. Only a teacher with a sense of humor and a sympathy with his fellow beings could ever make his listeners respond to history so fully. Behind his quiet, precise voice is a mind and personality which has gained not only the admiration, but also the deep friendship of those students who have heard his lectures this year...
Hollywood puts out a type of comedy that lies somewhere in between the Marx Brothers' slapstick and the more subtle personality humor of the late Will Rogers or the present Bob Benchley. This in-between brand depends mostly on a tricky plot and rapid dialogue, and has lately been dished out in large quantities by the Rosalind Russell-Cary grant team...
...apreciate his wry humor when he says, "It is reported from Oslo that the Norwegian Noble Committee has reached a decision on its annual peace award. It has decided not to award a peace prize for 1939." You are sure of his sincerity when he says, "How long these people will stand up to this sort of thing, I don't know, but tonight they're magnificent. I've seen them, talked with them, and I know." You realize what the spirit of the Londoners is when he says, "Today I walked down a long street . . . In one window...