Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said: "Morgenthau is the most servile man toward Roosevelt. . . . In Cabinet meetings, he looks like he is afraid someone will ask him a question and he will give an answer that will displease Roosevelt."* Garner tried to joke with Morgenthau, gave it up "because he had no sense of humor." Then he amended the phrase; he thought perhaps it was "exactly two words too long...
...more acute . . . than among those who participated in the development of atomic energy for military purposes. . . . The physics which played the decisive part in the development of the atomic bomb came straight out of our laboratories and our journals. . . . In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
...curious to know how many TIME readers, while digesting (no humor intended) the Cornell report on Cannibalism and English Columnist Nat Gubbins' subsequent play [TIME, Jan. 19], were struck by its remarkable similarity in concept to Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal, a satire written over two centuries ago and incited by the starving conditions in Ireland at that time...
Died. Thomas Theodor Heine,*80, cofounder, cartoonist and guiding genius of Germany's late great humor magazine Simplicissimus; in Stockholm. Sharp-penned Heine was jailed for making fun of the Kaiser, exiled in 1933 for making fun of Hitler. In his old age he ruefully remarked that "ridicule does not kill, it popularizes...
...meat of the story is its simple revelation of three types of human character, altering in the presence of the sinister catalyst, gold. The story is told with intelligence, humor and suspense. It is by turns exceedingly funny and completely terrifying. It is as rich in symbolic overtones as it is in character and drama. For the treasure of the mountain is a fair image of most human goals; and the men who seek it are fair representatives...