Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mohandas K. Gandhi, 75, revealed the formula by which he plans to live for another 50 years: plenty of humor, a balanced diet, early to bed & early to rise, no stimulants, "a brake upon impetuosity," resignation to the will...
...Girls (see cut), a lithograph by Margaret Goss of a blank-faced blond girl and a deadpan colored girl sitting side by side on a settee, was the high point in race-consciousness-with-humor...
...Many times we have wanted to fold the magazine up; it is hard to remain seated on the low hummocks of satire and humor in the midst of grim events. A satirist at breakfast may get a firm grip on his day's work . . . only to have the whole thing drop out from under him when his eye reaches the casualty list...
...only pretty good), his ability to invent expressive pantomime is almost bound to slacken. There are some rough, funny scenes in A Royal Scandal, especially a long, toast-quaffing, glass-smashing seduction scene between the Empress and the most faithful and willing of subjects. But too much of the humor depends, typically, on your capacity for being amused at hearing an anointed monarch bawl "Shut up"-which is good for one smile, or perhaps two, but begins, after a few reels, to lose its bouquet...
...three, the canvases of Swiss-born Paul Klee (1879-1940) were the most recognizable. Concealed in his childlike scrawling was many a suggestion of reality (shadowy trees, clouds, heads); much of his work possessed simplicity, sharpness and humor, and a spontaneity as fresh as a candid camera shot...