Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admittedly, Allen, with the help of guests, has risen to the heights of humor on occasions. Few things in radio have been better done than, for example, the Gilbert & Sullivan parody of last year with Leo Durocher. It is here that Allen's genius finds its best outlet-that is as a writer, and perhaps a director, rather than as a grater-voiced, not-so-funny funnyman...
With few old favorites left to warm their adjectives over, German critics pounced on newcomer Koerner. Those who supposed that his work showed the trend of U.S. art proudly concluded that painting in the U.S. had gone German. Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s. Along with My Parents, the show's strongest painting was The Prophet (see cut), which reminded critics of Expressionist Grosz and also of Koerner's favorite Old Master, Peter Bruegel. (Of his bony, monkey-like Prophet, Koerner...
...sure-fire for its own good. It has some faint hints of realistic rustic meanness and kindliness. It also has moments of innocently ribald energy which may not be wholly authentic to the backwoods, but are pretty good as lively, half-demented comedy. Against its bits of honest humor, MacMurray's portrait of a stock Hollywood goof and Miss Colbert's skilled smirking over situations which might better have been played straight look flashily flimsy and false. The picture has a lot of fun in it, but it will be most amusing to those who are content...
...foods and the delicate Continental wines of which there are "only imitations in this country but for one I have discovered in the Finger Lakes of New York State." Those who meet him and withdraw at an apparent forbidding austerity soon learn that Gropius possesses a keen sense of humor (hampered somewhat by an incomplete appreciation of American slang) and the greatest warmth for people who are young-in years or in ideas. At Robinson Hall his carefully screened graduate students from the four corners of the earth hold him in something close to worship. One Czech girl exploded...
...best of these jingles are such a neat blend of humor, whimsey and corn that they seemed to come from the pen of an old master. Not so. The nearest thing in Burma-Vita to an old master is the man who started them, and the company as well-Allan Gilbert Odell, 42, the athletic vice president and sales manager of the company. He devoted so much of his youth to basketball and football that he acquired a thorough interest in liniments. By the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1925, he decided to produce and market...