Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...
...able pedagogical statistician, he inspects U. S. institutions once a year, analyzes them in a yearly work which is a standard in the field. President Walters brought to Cincinnati much good humor, pleased the football squad by watching them at practice, visiting quarterback Roy Fitzgerald in the hospital the day after he broke a leg in the season's first game...
Given Red Dust's brazen moral values, Gable & Harlow have full play for their curiously similar sort of good-natured toughness. The best lines go to Harlow. She bathes hilariously in a rain barrel, reads Gable a bedtime story about a chipmunk and a rabbit. Her effortless vulgarity, humor and slovenliness make a noteworthy characterization, as good in the genre as the late Jeanne Eagels' Sadie Thompson. Noteworthy too is the fake jungle, a marvel of impenetrability...
...that Berlioz' story was fascinating. But, he pointed out, Berlioz was unlike most musicians. He had been able to talk about his trade, to handle words in as lively and vigorous a fashion as he handled musical notes. Berlioz' own Memoirs, according to Critic Newman, had wit, humor, raciness that made the language of his biographers seem like cold tea after champagne. Better to brush up the translation of the Memoirs than do another biography. Publisher Knopf agreed and now comes a noteworthy book with omissions and distortions of the original carefully corrected.- The facts of Berlioz...
...Carroll's shows have long held the record for borderline humor. In Comedian Berle is to be found the acme of hysterical vulgarity. His funniest printable jape is introducing the audience to Jim Londos. and then finding that he has mistaken an unknown lady in the third row. for the onetime champion wrestler (see p. 22). While one part of the audience blushes and the other part guffaws. Comedian Berle proceeds to imitate a person of uncertain gender, quip about the show girls' fundaments, shout depraved announcements into a loudspeaker. Less mad than Jimmy Durante, less subtle than...