Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opus afforded company rather than competition. The story is labeled: "A Royal Escapade in a Little European Kingdom. . . . Let Us Call It Langenstein." The music is cacophonous except for "I Found a Song" which decorative Nancy McCord and spry little Guy Robertson spend most of their time singing. For humor Librettist Herendeen has relied heavily on the outlandish sound of U. S. slang in dreamy old Langenstein...
...Baby Brats" at famed Brattle Hall. He did not seek popularity and few of his classmates, including Junius Spencer Morgan, Sumner Welles, Nicholas Roosevelt, Gilbert Seldes, noticed the shy, towheaded, unprepossessing youngster from Dorchester. Those who did became his fast friends, won by a quick, appealing smile, a quiet humor and good sense...
...humor of it, like the plot, is sunny and to-the-point. The quality which makes "Sailor, Beware" a charming evening is its complete simplicity; it doesn't seem possible than anyone could write such guiltless stuff with wheat selling at $1.06 and O'Neill's "Days Without End" on the boards. The hostesses in The Idle Hour Cafe talk with point and guste; they know that life is life. The heroine knows it too, but she has the old hourgeois respectability on her mind, and keeps pretty stiff-backed. Young "Dynamite," the aggressor, tries all manner of persuasions, from...
...already, in his annual message, recommended a charter commission composed of Alfred E. Smith, onetime Governor Nathan L. Miller, Nicholas Murray Butler, and Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To the Governor's proposals Mayor LaGuardia had a ready reply, which he delivered two days later with good humor but with equal vehemence: "It is difficult to find a distinction between the conditions of [the bankers'] agreement and any equity receivership. ... It imposes upon the city an additional . . . $57,000,000 amortization . . . and an interest rate which may be as high as 6%-an unreasonable price in the present money...
...helm of the car. The trenchant political observations of the former mayor of Beverly, break forth now and again, but it is to be hoped that on his next vacation from the radio Mr. Rogers will be cast in a production with something more stimulating than lazy good humor...