Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stop Sinclair movement," wrote Scripps-Howard Newshawk Max Stern, "has become a phobia, lacking humor, fairness and even a sense of reality." He reported a blizzard of anti-Sinclair pamphlets in Los Angeles. One showed a lurid Russian figure waving a red flag over California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle...
...marvel of its time until the railroads came. With much nostalgic tenderness has Walter D. Edmonds (Rome Haul) written of the canal as it approached its decadence. Two able adapters, Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) and Frank B. Elser (Mr. Gilhooley), have preserved for the stage every jot of humor, deviltry and brawling caste loyalty which Author Edmonds' boatmen had between covers...
...knowledge in the public school system to begin dealing in the facts of life. It is a point needing little re-emphasis that the semi-literacy which is weaned on the diet dished out by earnest graduates of the neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush, joe penners and streamlined bathtubs, athletes foot and esquire. It glories in the Sir Galahad account of the Spanish-American War, and it establishes as a natural limit to the study of civics, the skeleton of the local street...
Everybody except Freshmen know Harold Lloyd by heart. Some members of the Class of 1938 might even remember one of his productions. It is sufficient to say that he is unchanged, and those who enjoy a bolly-laugh at slapstick and rather primitive humor will not be disappointed...
...platform heroes steps forward. "Now, I don't want to speak ill of the dead," be begins. Silence. "So I won't say anything against Bacon." Again silence. He waits. Number 1 of the twin-bellies laughs uproariously. The crowd laughs. The speaker has said something fanny. More humor. The crowd laughs some more. The band plays "My Wild Irish Rose...