Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...source in marriage, whether in Westminster Abbey or in a country church. Thus, what would otherwise have been merely a flash of gems, a blare of horns and a hash of gossip took on a meaning for Briton and alien by a fascinating interplay of dignity and earthiness, of humor, pomp and prayer...
...sense least understood (not counting humor) is the sense of smell. Its subtleties baffle scientists and enrich perfume compounders. Last week Yale's Drs. Lloyd H Beck and Walter R. Miles, after long and thoughtful scratching of their scientific noses, presented the National Academy of Sciences with a brand-new theory. The nose, they said, is not, as commonly believed, a laboratory which identifies odors by chemical analysis. More likely, its smeller is an instrument or measuring infra-red (heat) rays absorbed by odorous vapors...
...Walter Mitty" as just another motion picture, we can measure it by its own individual merits--and we can find it wanting. Perhaps this feeling comes because Danny Kaye cannot seem to exude any of the real Mitty atmosphere; perhaps Kaye's species of facial-contortions-and-mouth-noises humor has begun to be rather tedious; perhaps slapstick is still, as always, a poor substitute for wit. Or perhaps the five dream-episodes, (three from the original story), funny as they may be, just don't completely redeem a routine "comedy-mystery"--routine even to the extent of including Boris...
...doctor's health talks are an adroit mixture of sharply worded advice and blunt humor. "Life," he explains to his ten million listeners, "is a matter of moments that are lost and bowels that are distended." His descriptions of ailments are calculated to shock hypochondriacs out of their introspective gloom ("Just think of a boil-as round as a football, as red as a raspberry, as tender as the treacly smile of a lovesick maiden...
...Subject: the history of the Hudson's Bay Co. Before leaving Tokyo for home, he took a walk with Emperor Hirohito amid the 700-year-old dwarf trees in his garden. Reported the Colonel, whose occasional sarcasm and constant, majestic deadpan sometimes pass muster for a sense of humor: "The Emperor said he hoped in the future the relations between Japan and the U.S. would be as warm as they have been in the past...