Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months. This year in the Senate, where he is now recognized as the ablest legislator on banking matters, he talked for less than five newspaper columns. His words drawled out of the right corner of his severe mouth, his lips curling up into an expression of chronic ill humor. (Woodrow Wilson once remarked: "Think what Glass would say if he ever used both sides of his mouth...
...Goodbye Again" is one long bedroom scene; but its humor is not of the bedroom; only once is either of the beds in the play made a vehicle of comedy, and that is when Mr. Perkins wrestles with his blankets in a manner which kept at least one audience convulsed for more than two minutes. The humor of the play is like that; it is engrossing because Miss Bates and Mr. Perkins are able, through force of personality, to overcome the self-consciousness of their public...
...they write are vaguer. In a letter to Publisher Knopf, Author Neumann defiantly admits why he wrote this historical-romantic farce: "Because I wanted to fight against the general and my personal depression, and because in hard and bad times there is always one tragicomic feeling in place-gallows humor." Seekers after belly-laughs need not apply! Author Neumann's humor is fun but it is gruesome...
Mayor O'Brien sat for ten years upon the surrogate's bench. Mayor Walker was famed for conscious witticisms. Mayor O'Brien is already celebrated for humor of another kind. Some O'Brienisms...
Written with care, humor and flashes of satirical shrewdness. Never Ask the End may scare away skimming readers by its slow and mazy manner. To serious readers, its seriousness and sly competence should appeal...