Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another suffer from the ban is the merry wag who used to stand in line in order to pass a jest with the president. Mr. Hoover's term has not been prolific of this form of humor, but in the legendary days of prosperity, the impassive figure of Mr. Coolidge seemed to tempt the amateur will Rogers continually. The newspaper did not dignify these events with print, but they nevertheless had their evanescent fame. One inspired youth waited for half an hour in the procession in order to confront the outstretched hand of the president with lifted eyebrows...
...books are collections of odds & ends which he recites alternate mornings in the "Tony's Scrap Book" period, and every evening on the Camel Quarter Hour between Morton Downey's ballads. The two called Tony's Scrap Books are anthologies of noble thoughts, snatches of homely humor, tributes to beauty, diligence, nature, perseverance, motherhood, home, etc. Some are from Edgar Albert Guest, Dr. Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them...
...Vyesyolov. Drunk, he staggered in front of a train. While the crew of that train was trying to extricate his body a second train ploughed into it. Peasants laid the wounded on a parallel track, a freight train ran over them. Those who were able to appreciate the grim humor of the situation recalled that the cobbler's name was similar to the Russian word meaning gay (Vyesioliy) that when Russians say "drunk as a cobbler" they mean very drunk...
...part upon the assurance, heartily shared by its noble directors, that the sense of fun never sets on the British Empire. Too conservative to desert the archaic method of advertising by quips and slogans, Bovril cajolements for the past 25 years have been almost an almanac of British humor, a glossary to theatrical and taproom slang. Bovril's august board has catered not only to the British appetite for beef, but also to the British appetite for advertising, which may be why an attempt to Bovrilize the U. S. several years ago failed. Almost as delectable as Bovril...
Short, swarthy, scowling, Director Lubitsch has a Teutonic sense of humor, a juvenile propensity for jokes. When visitors appear on the set, he amuses him self by roaring at the leading lady. He gaily chose to address Jeanette MacDonald by abbreviating her last name, until she replied in kind. More Teutonic than his humor is the Lubitsch urge for order and completion. Before making a picture he spends three months preparing the script with his writers, telling them exactly what he wants. When the script ? essentially a stenographic record of a Lubitsch idea ? is finished, he seldom sees...