Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Pierre Laval and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand emerged from a cabinet meeting in the Elysée Palace last week in high good humor. A little knot of passersby, a few photographers were waiting for them. The pockets of the Prime Minister's neat blue suit bulged with strange objects. While shutters clicked there were impolite but audible comments on what was in them. A mousetrap? Fromage de Brie? Fishhooks...
...Hartford, Ala.. Police Chief J. C. Roney and ex-Mayor J. H. Radford had disliked each other for years. One morning a road-scraping machine went into operation directly in front of the ex-mayor's house, put the ex-mayor into a frightful humor, sent him hurrying to the police chief to demand that the nuisance cease. The police chief put his left hand on the ex-mayor's shoulder, the ex-mayor put his left hand on the police chief's shoulder; with their right hands they drew pistols, shot each other to death...
...people. If by some unlikely chance you have never read one of her books, Susan Spray is a good one to begin on. If you fear being bored to extinction by heavy dialect and heavy characters clodhopping to a country tragedy, take heart: there is enough irony, humanity, sly humor to leaven a much heavier lump...
Earl Carroll has no sense of humor. But he has a remarkable gift for display. There is only one funny person in his show. A series of dirty jokes, very old, very stupid, are used to pass the time while more and more gorgeous settings are being made ready. Rousing climax of this element in the entertainment comes when five tons of chromium are lowered and a host of pretty girls in pale green are set to dancing before it. At another time, scores of undressed dancers with naked heels flash between glimmering crystal scimitars to Ravel's throbbing Bolero...
...western tip, Pinar del Rio. Three days later the puffing gunboat Baire found the yacht loafing along the coast. It was captured without a shot. A crew of three sailors were on board who knew nothing, had seen nothing. They were brought back as prisoners in high good humor...