Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the earnestness of advocates of political action often gains much through the leaven of humor is a fact which is too seldom recognized by such advocates. But humorless advocacy is better, usually, than contented tragi-comical inertia and it seems to me that the CRIMSON, in its editorial "Liberal Bats," extends the bounds of the good sense it urges when it condemns the Liberal Club petition on that ground...
...chief merit of Alexander Korda's historical researches (Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Don Juan) is the quality of adult humor, with which he endows them. Like his previous works, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a lavish period piece, packed with all the paraphernalia of an epoch that the cinema has neglected since D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm. Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie...
That the Liberal Club is seriously considering preparing a petition to send to Washington advocating legislation on vital topics of the day indicates its members are in danger of losing their sense of humor. It is all very well to discuss momentous problems in an open forum, and the practice of having prominent men speak words of wisdom on the world and its problems is commendable; but the idea of a group of semi-intellectual college students taking themselves seriously enough to think they are capable of doing Congress's work is preposterous...
Tucked away in the back advertising pages of Satevepost, Henry's adult humor attracted an enormous following. Fan mail deluged him. Advertisers demanded position next to him. Foreign papers reprinted him. Traveling in Germany last autumn Publisher William Randolph Hearst discovered Henry in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung, promptly called for a secretary, a cablegram blank. Few hours later in Manhattan Hearst's syndicate chief, Joseph Vincent Connolly, received word: "Get Henry." He took the next train for Madison, Wis. There in a feverish half-hour between trains he signed Carl Anderson to a fat contract with King Features...
French critics have hailed Charles Braibant for his "wholesome" qualities, have welcomed The Iron Mother because it is a "change" from the pathological novel of Proustian introspection. Yet, for all its vivid phrases, for all its objectivity, for all its wry humor, The Iron Mother welters in a family situation which can hardly be called wholesome and which should be pathological enough to suit even the most exacting of Freudians...