Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Robert E. Sherwood used to write movie reviews for Life, his column was pithy, though interspersed with light humor. Of late years, he has turned his hand to writing plays, and in the transition has tempered his with even more finely, while building his plots on material of thinner and thinner texture. "The Queen's Husband," presented at the Plymouth by the American Theatre Society, is another well-received example of the later Sherwood tradition...
...king is the turning point of the entire performance, and it is his sense of humor that seems to be the clue to the whole tenor of the play. Those mild little replies of his which carry the kick of a mule and the sly smile that puts him beyond the reach of the bellowings of the dictator, and the outbursts of the queen, vary considerably in their effectiveness. This is not due to failure in performance, but rather to the fact that Sherwood has drawn his point too fine for maintained effectiveness...
...those familiar with the famous moustaches which adorned the lip of President Theodore Roosevelt, there is considerable humor in this completely serious statement by Dr. W. II. Osgood of the Field Museum in Chicago concerning the maniacs Roosevelt, or barking door, one of the new species found by the recent Coolidge-Roosevelt expedition to Indo China...
BRUCE Lockhart, an impulsive young Scotchman with a fondness for lovely ladies and a sense of humor, was Lloyd George's "schoolboy ambassador" to Lenin and Trotsky when their government was young. Women and Bolsheviks were his weakness. He relates in "British Agent" his narrow escapes from both with such frankness that one feels throughout the book the added thrill of truth...
This February choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club is a simply written, but thrilling account of the drama on the world stage at a critical time by one who was able to find humor in the antics of statesmen