Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unexpected humor, unfaltering analytical acuity, a beautifully keen emotional sensibility and such steely, abundant natural vigor as to afford that extra half-ounce of energy which compels immediate assent. . . . 'Unfaltering! Unflagging!'-these are the epithets that his performance most obviously requires. Other actors are in this or that phase of Lear's progress from worldly to spiritual dominion the peers of Mr. Olivier, but no actor that we can recall has matched the creative stamina which enables Mr. Olivier to rise equal to the demands of every phase...
...thoughtful Nürnberger suggested that it might be a kind of joke, wrote six pages of tight Gothic script on the philosophy of humor...
Grumpy, Eh? In Chicago, Shirley Hudson sued for divorce, claimed her eight-day, gag-loving husband had 1) tied her ankles together, 2) hoisted her to the ceiling, 3) accused her of lacking a sense of humor...
...crony, Cartoonist Ham Fisher, Flagg has a thorned rose: "He is so keen, so well informed; his wit is sharp and his imaginative humor is boundless-it is incredible that none of all this ever gets into his strip of 'comic stuff' called [Joe] Palooka...
...present Freedom & Union will not go on newsstands, will sell only to subscribers (at $4 a year). To season its heavy fare of discussions, digests and editorials, there will be dashes of humor and satire, columns with titles like The Little Dog Laughed and Poor Adam's Almanack. "In short," says Clarence Streit, "Freedom & Union will be neither a timid, pallid neutral nor a narrow, humorless zealot." But it will try to count for something among "influential English-reading people" the world over...