Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope for the best." It was a grim bit of humor. In November V-bombs had killed 716 civilians, had injured 1,511. Londoners did not have to compare November's toll with October's (172 killed, 416 injured) to realize that V-2 was now a threat to bring back the worst days of last summer,* before a defense had been found against...
...handsome Villa Manrique, Seville residence of the bride's father, was crammed with 1,500 presents, including one from General Francisco Franco. Don Carlos, in high good humor, had signed the necessary canonical consent for the union, then appeared benevolently at the bridegroom's traditional banquet on the wedding eve. Later he gave a sumptuous party for the principitos (little princes), and principitas, children of the guests...
Patrick has built his play around a fundamentally intriguing situation. A friendless and unfriendly Scot, wounded badly and near death, is placed in a ward with four congenial and humor-loving soldiers. The other men are under orders to break down the reserve of the Scot and make him "belong" before his death, and the efforts of the four soldiers and their nurse to accomplish this task over the mountainous barrier of the Scotchman's intrespective soul make a penetratingly effective plot...
...French Government was embarrassed: Louis Renault, late great automobile magnate, had had a sense of social responsibility-and perhaps also a sense of humor...
Yankee from Olympus, by Catherine Drinker Bowen, a biography of Chief Justice Holmes, remained on the list of popular books all year by virtue of the wisdom, the knowledge of law, the humor and the span of American history embodied in its hero...