Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best ally was the daily press. The nation's front page was his every time he opened his mouth. His salty speech, his candor, his humor, his drive captivated the half a hundred Washington correspondents who attended his conferences. The General roughly rejected the proposed newspaper code as unsatisfactory (see p. 28) but publishers did not retaliate by playing him down...
...patted him, and turned over. He clattered down the stairs in a very bad humor...
...truck which carries all the property as well as most of the actors and actresses will serve as the stage and will be draped to resemble, a bedroom or a garden as the script demands. In the play, Bernard Shaw invokes all his dry humor against the fanfare of war mock bravery, and the gold buttons. In case of rain the performance will be held indoors in Sanders Theatre. Two years ago when the Jitney Players almost 500 spectators, summer school students and public attended...
...Goodbye Again" is one long bedroom scene; buts its humor is not of the bedroom; and only once is either of the beds in the play made a vehicle of comedy. The humor of the play is like that; it is engrossing because Miss Baxter and Mr. Perkins are able, through force of personality, to overcome the self-consciousness of their public...
Babbitt's students never to may knowledge regarded him as a crotchety old man. In person and in speech he exhibited a gustiness which was always youthful and a sense of humor which always tempered his bitterest jibe...