Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humor which characterizes most of the comic dialogue in the play is, like the title, forced and manifestly uninspired. But not all the lines fall short. The Plymouth audience did not hesitate to show appreciation when Hope Williams, on dismissing her over-formalized Rising Young Business Man suitor (Coburn Goodwin), asked him as a last favor to "goose Mrs. Cruikshank...
...sister Evelyn as "my brother Clarence Dillon." To the many "how comes?" "social history" records no entirely satisfactory replies. Clarence Dillon's picture shows him to favor his father and your "smooth cheery" description, along with the smile, would indicate that he has also inherited the wit and humor for which his father "Sam Lapowski" was known, well illustrated by the following story, I often tell, to illustrate like situations: Sam Lapowski's El Paso neighbor was one Stevens, pioneer realtor, robust, energetic, a veritable fanatic on exercise which often found vent in "sunrise lawn-mowing...
Gourmet Albert Sarraut is one of France's great empire builders, a stocky, twinkly-eyed Senator with a warm sense of humor, an icy sense of duty and the charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought...
Stephen Leacock, the astounding fellow who possesses both a Professorship in Economics and what some people have seen fit to term a sense of humor, has completed a magnum opus, a life of Charles Dickens, which is to be published on November 16. It is something of a shock to consider the name Leacock in connection with a serious work. It will be interesting to note whether that shock interferes with an appreciation of the work...
Arithmetic for Stockholders. Mr. Wiggin, good-natured, sure that he had not been overpaid, lost some of his good humor when questioned about Chase Securities Corp. Mr. Pecora made him admit figure by figure that the company (which sold $6,000,000,000 of securities, 5.68% of which went into default) had to reserve for losses 77% ($120,000,000) of its aggregate capital and earnings since 1917. To Mr. Pecora's charge that the company's reports to stockholders* had hidden losses Mr. Wiggin entered denials. Mr. Pecora gave him the company's reports...