Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandsons. But he was less diffident than their father about coaxing them into his business. Having given up hope for Curtis Bok, he enlisted the aid of his daughter in gaining the ear of her younger son, Gary William. Gary, who resembles his big brother in quiet charm, mild humor and Dutch stubbornness, has followed him to Williams, into Deke and Gargoyle. He shared his brother's fondness for beer & ale and baseball, and he pitched on the varsity...
...later years that the continual reference to the fact that he wrote "The Long, Long Trail'' irritated him. Many of us often thought that King would have liked to have the memory of that ditty buried. It obscured the value of the pungent wit and humor which poured in a continual and effortless stream from his typewriter into the pages of the Spokane Spokesman-Review and into his books. These books-collections of fine humorous verse, What the Queen Said, The Raspberry Tree and others-must and will pass into future collections of Americana as characteristic of this...
...Phil Stong-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Only Iowans can properly judge how truly Author Stong's 14th novel* mirrors Iowa life, but any hayseed can tell that Author Stong has seen some strongly improbable cinemas. Author Stong, however, has plentifully seasoned this fare with generous helpings of sardonic Iowa humor. Grandpa Storr, a cross between Falstaff and King Lear, talked like Mark Twain in unexpurgated mood. His language and actions were equally offensive to his household, consisting of: his nephew's wife (wicked), his stepdaughter (foolish), her husband (weak). They sat around like jackals waiting...
...College Humor (Paramount) is a frantic little absurdity about an institution called Midwest (football rival: Yarwood) where Jack Oakie is the dormitory dunce, Lona Andre the campus belle, Richard Aden a neurotic footballer, and Bing Crosby the professor of music. With that inappropriate calm which is his chief distinction, Crosby yodels songs called "Learn to Croon," "Play Ball," "Moon-struck," ''The Old Ox Road." Paramount, more versatile than its competitors, has two types of musical pictures. Those in which Maurice Chevalier is directed by Ernst Lubitsch are for metropolitan consumption. The others, of which this is a fair...
...when income taxes were made public, had an income of some $5,000,000-as big as Rockefeller's, Ford's, MelIon's. If he had human frailties or a sense of humor, the public did not know about them. If he had genius in addition to his Horatio Alger traits, there was only the circumstantial evidence of his colossal success in dollars. From the time he began his first important publishing venture, The Tribune & Farmer, in Philadelphia in 1879 (this followed a series of smaller-scale efforts, jobs as advertising solicitor, circulation hustler...