Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guard her first child, Vinson; she provided a scrubbed, perfumed Negro boy to "keep him from getting spoiled by wealth." But he was killed by an automobile when he was nine. Her marriage ended tragically. Hard-drinking Ned McLean's mind gave way-in a moment of wild humor he sent her a Latvian divorce summons done up in a Christmas box decorated with tiny reindeer and holly. He was committed to an insane asylum a little later, finally died there...
...comedians Wednesday it and was the open vice war presidents- between with gravy-boats of wonderful, front page publicity for all concerned. On Thursday, NBC suddenly took it all back, blandly admitted having "regained our sense of humor," proved they had caught the spirit by offering honorary vice-presidencies to Allen, Skelton and Hope...
...young teacher (French Comedian Noël-Noël) who gets a job in a boys' reform school. Ruled over by boneheaded authoritarians and worse, the boys are well on their way towards becoming neurotics or criminals. Cage is simply the story, told with wisdom and humor, of how the new teacher opposes his bosses and wins over his pupils with the unpretentious methods of good sense, kindliness, and a talent for interesting children in singing. The picture is never as ambitious or exciting as the best of Torment, but it never loses its own particular low-keyed...
...friends the opening chapters of The Trial (the story of a man crucified by inches), they laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks, and Kafka himself laughed so hard he could not go on reading. It is, says Novelist Thomas Mann solemnly, "very deep-rooted and involved" humor. Kafka's cosmic comedy of man's foredoomed failure in his quest for God is brought down to earth and up to the minute by the use (in The Trial and The Castle) of all the adventitious paraphernalia of 20th Century living -telephones, railroad trains, banks, boardinghouses, taxicabs...
Among the shorter material, there is a clear precis of the Club 100 affairs, called "Victory Over Discrimination." Comic relief comes in the form of a parody of literary criticism. The belabored humor only goes to show once more that The Progressive shouldn't mess around with such things...