Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most reliable index of Yugoslavia's enthusiasm is the amount of glass that gets broken. In Belgrade champagne bottles, having uttered their pops and spilled their bubbles, smashed against walls. Glasses, having been touched in toast, crashed into fireplaces. Siphon bottles, mirrors, windows were broken in greatest good humor...
...forum expert, Granik gets plenty of opportunity to exercise his skill when he takes to the air. Frequently his debaters start battling over cocktails at the Willard Hotel, from which the Forum is broadcast, work themselves into a knock-down-drag-out humor even before they reach a mike. A memorable evening was provided by Burton Wheeler when he growled that the "New Deal's triple 'A' foreign policy" would "plough under every fourth American boy." Spectators at the show are also often difficult. Before he established the rule that questions from the floor must be submitted...
...TIME were to lose its excellent sense of values in picturing events, that would be bad, but if it lost its sense of humor, that would be fatal-at least to one family's subscription...
Stalin, Mussolini and an unidentified Japanese cock their ears in the background (see cut). Said Hungerford: "We figured that cartoons combining humor with serious fact would have more of an appeal to the average worker than most ordinary conventional posters." Because FBI cannot engage in commercial activity (Hungerford and Sherman expect to make their work pay), it could not sponsor the posters. But by week's end, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. had bought 3,600, Westinghouse 1,680; other defense manufacturers were standing in line for their share...
...Colonel T. E. Lawrence in 1916 about the Arab war against the Turks, the canny Colonel sized him up as follows: "I began to suspect him of a constant cheerfulness. ... He jested with all comers in most easy fashion: yet, when we fell into serious talk, the veil of humor seemed to fade away as he chose his words, and argued shrewdly. ... As our conversation continued, I became more and more sure that Abdullah was too balanced, too cool, too humorous to be a prophet. . . . His value would come, perhaps, in the peace after success...