Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week President Roosevelt opened his press conference in a mood of great good humor. Correspondents in the front row saw all the sure signs that the President was waiting to spring something -he pursed his lips, stretched his big cheeks and rolled his tongue against them as he stared at the ceiling-an omen from which Washington newsmen deduce the Presidential mood as fishermen scan the sky for breaks in the weather. A blurt by Secretary Steve Early helped start the conference-as they seldom start these days-with a laugh. The President announced that...
...measure its success in teaching democracy, many a school adopted a new kind of report card, rates its pupils in such qualities as intellectual curiosity, initiative, ability to weigh evidence, executive ability, ability to influence others, a sense of humor...
...plot pivots around the marital woes of a village baker whose wife seeks romance in elopement, and finally finds it in the arms of her forgiving husband. Raimu as the cuckooed villager strikes an unusually happy balance between humor and earnestness, burlesque and drama...
...revue is a burlesque show of the very best sort, with the same sort of humor--reasonably clean, of course--and the same sort of vaudeville. Unlike the Old Howard, it also displays some beautiful and seductive women. For the rest, however, it consists of the usual acrobats, guitar players, slapstick comics, and tap dancers. The De Marcos come down from the St. Regis and live to do a very nice bit of dancing. A troupe of jugglers awes very efficiently. Jane Pickens is lovely to look at and O.K. for listening, too, except when she teams up with some...
...Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to reply to Adolf Hitler-and to tell his own people what was in store for them. The Prime Minister was also jaunty. Although the House had had to adjourn for an hour during an air raid, Mr. Churchill's humor was intact. He began by paying his respects to his foe ("No doubt Herr Hitler will not like this transference of [U.S.] destroyers"), went on to express his confidence that Hitler's Empire would pass away more quickly than did Napoleon's Army ("although of course without...