Word: humorously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...delivery is marked by physical violence, his whole body vibrating, his pointed finger shooting skyward. His voice is loud and clear, with words coming out like bursts from a machine gun. He sprinkles exclamatory "Sirl's" throughout his text and makes homely words crack like a whip. His humor is cold, caustic, unsmiling. A speech by him is a highly emotional event for all concerned...
Scene is laid in Revolutionary France. Situation: a valet temporarily changes places with his aristocratic master for whom a large part of the populace seems to be gunning. There is no campus joshing, no topical humor takes place in the inquisition scene (with scandalous New York only 50 mi. away) ; even the old trick of stealing jokes from the Tiger at the last minute has not been resorted to. On the credit side of the ledger, sure to please not only cousins, sisters and aunts but impartial spectators as well, is the performance of the valet. Jose V. Ferrer, Class...
...Soglow of New Yorker fame has made clever use of the physical device of color filtering. It is no new invention; it has been used in color printing for twenty years, and during the war Germany used it to disguise identification numbers on aeroplanes; but its use for humor is entirely original...
...Soglow's cleverest ideas. The picture of Lady Godiva, for instance, is in his best salacious vein. And all New Yorker readers should howl with laughter over the new antics of that inimitable king of O. Soglow. But once in a while, one has the feeling that the humor is strained. O. Soglow has hoped that his name would excuse bad ideas, or perhaps that his drawing would put them over, which it almost does...
...Editor sank back into the cushions of the taxi and wished the meter wouldn't tick so often. In Detroit you can make a bargain with the chauffeur, but New Englanders have no sense of humor when it comes to money. Beacon Street is so far away. But damn the expense, there is always a wastebasket for regular bills. And tonight, tonight would be worth a King's Ransom...