Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader of men, a man of magnificent courage and character, yet uneducated and scarcely lettered, Chapayev was thought to need direction by the high Soviet command. Thus, Commissar Furmanov is detailed to consolidate the army's gains for the Bolsheviks. Making fine use of the delightful Russian sense of humor, the director has told much in the clashes between the quiet Furmanov and the fiery, jealous, and naively conceited Chapayev. But in contrast to his simple peasant mind is Chapayev's ability as a military strategist, of which we have just a glimpse as he tersely explains a military problem...
Leaping up in joy, the whole Collective Farm Congress huzzaed. Before the day was over Comrade Yakovlev had put his hearers in still better humor, had announced modified capitalistic concessions to the State's own collective farms...
Actor Fresney was also Noah in the French version, but anyone who saw him in Noel Coward's froufrou Conversation Piece, is no longer impressed by his flawless English. What is impressive is the commanding range of humor and humility, the acute sense of timing, the rich, full-stopped voice which Actor Fresney has for years been displaying to French audiences...
...would be pointless to review here the recent editorial past of the CRIMSON to show, perhaps not without humor, that, were the CRIMSON editors and the Liberal Club members comparable as commentators on public affairs, the implied slur by the CRIMSON on the capacity of the Liberal Club would be accurate. Yet consistency is a virtue which can be practices with profit by the CRIMSON. And, finally, indulging in what is perhaps a pardonable personality, it seems to me that if the CRIMSON can demonstrate the economic harm to and plead for social justice for the Chinese in the editorial...
...Liberal Club for one of its periodic attempts to stand up on its wobbly legs and make motions. The Liberal Club announces its intention of sending to Congress a petition advocating certain pieces of legislation; you comment, first, ". . . its members are in danger of losing their sense of humor", and last, "What America needs is to be laughed at. . ." . And in the middle, you oracularly assert, "A University is an institution for detached, impartial study of the arts and sciences, contemporary and modern." I repeat...