Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire operation is painless enough, now & then funny. Bing sings a few songs; Hope clowns and rolls his eyes at Dotty; the late Robert Benchley breaks in from time to time to put a gloss on the frozen custard-pie humor...
...house, hulking Sonny Tufts, Exeter-and-Yale-educated in real life, acts with unusual restraint. The inevitable local-professor's-pretty-daughter is talented, wide-eyed, blonde Newcomer Joan Caulfield. The plot complications are tried & true, but the medical-school atmosphere seems reasonably authentic-and the medical schoolboy humor is good-natured and not too grisly...
Bevin displays little humor and geniality around the office ("Life is Real, Life is Ernest" soon became a common quip). He likes a drink and a chat, but is pathetically awkward at making friends. Nevertheless he won underpaid Foreign Office hearts by going to bat for a general salary raise. When a friend suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Daiton, might object, Bargainer Bevin roared: "I'll take the worthy doctor by his pants and swing him around my head till...
...those broad-comedy situations that can be funny for an act but is almost always fatal for an evening. Here very little is funny, even at the start. Beyond grinding out increasingly frantic variations on a single theme, January Thaw is always corny and often cobwebby in its humor...
...raised the provincial gentry's eyebrows. He also became a follower of Wincenty Witos, greatest of Polish peasant leaders. Grand, gruff old Witos watched his disciple with peasant skepticism. "Mikolajczyk is no peasant," he once growled. "He has neither the peasant's character, nor his sense of humor, nor his bad habits." But the peasants dissented. They kept voting for their Poznan farmer; in 1930 they sent him to the Sejm (Parliament) in Warsaw. When Witos was forced into exile, Mikolajczyk took over as chief of the Peasant Party, the largest of prewar Poland...