Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theories felt it was time to take a hand. They nominated Professor Harold L. Reed, hard money man from Cornell, in opposition. The vote: 53 (hard money men) for Professor Reed; 58 (soft money men and hard money friends) for Professor Rogers; 1 (an economist with a sense of humor) for the Big Bad Wolf...
...almost moving discussion of Remarque's "The Road Back". The worst part of the book is that headed "Three Newsreels", in which the contents of three issues of a New York newspaper are listed with pitiless cruelty (to the reader), unrelieved through twenty-five pages of triviality and insipid humor...
Unlike earnest Russian Reds, the Communists of Uruguay have a highly developed sense of humor. Last week they played a practical joke on the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11). The joke kept august delegates of 21 American nations standing hungrily about in a great marble hall for more than an hour and a half while their dinner grew dry and stale...
...years of the pioneer we must remember that even then there were the doubting Thomases, there was the persistent opposition of those who feared change. The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities-a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. With the one they smile at those who would divide up all the money in the nation on a per capita basis every Saturday night and at those who lament that they would rather possess pounds and francs than dollars. With our sense of proportion...
...good measure Premier Duca suppressed two small parties of the ultraRight, the Iron Guards and the anti-Semitic National Christian Defense League. In a wholesale, nationwide shakeup local prefects were ousted and replaced by Bratianu men. "These new officials," said a close friend of Dino Bratianu with grim humor, "will have the duty of seeing that the election, which we will soon hold, results in a Liberal victory...