Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, after an interim of three years, he put together another Follies (his 23rd) and sent it out to Pittsburgh last fortnight for a tryout, he knew he had no breathtakingly new ideas or humor. He knew the music was only cheerfully dependable, not intoxicating, and during the trial he bustled Composer Johnny Green ("Body & Soul") out to try and brush up the songs. But he had followed his old formula: really beautiful girls, the best tap and ballet dancing that money can buy, principals who are currently at top popularity, and the most perfect mounting, dressing, laundering, discipline...
...audacity, bad temper and bad taste appeared on newsstands this week in the form of Editor Norman Anthony's Ballyhoo, ballyhooed as the funny magazine devoid of advertising (TIME, May n). Much of the content was devoted to burlesques of familiar advertising campaigns. Therein lay most of its humor, most of its audacity, some of its bad taste. Examples...
...human side of those austere and dignified members of the faculty better than Mr. Hoover's new secretary employed to "humanize him." Students flocked to see not simply the unbending official, but his personality behind the mask of officialdom. They went to see their elders take in good humor an occasional personal jibe. They came back satisfied that after all faculty men are not entirely unsympathetic, inhuman pedagogues. Yale News...
...Blood frequently astounded at myself, but I am even more astounded by his accusation that I am "heavily humorless'' (TIME, May 11). Among the gifts which I have received from the fates I value none more than my funny bone. It is because of the delightful humor with which you manage to present the news that I enjoy TIME so immensely. But I don't like your review of my autobiography...
Goerge Foot Moore personally was an imposing figure. Massiveness and humor were admirably combined in him. Had he died a quarter or a half-century ago it is certain that his death would not have received such little notice. He was one of the first of the higher theologians to lead the way to a more scholarly and appreciative study of religion, heralding the contemporary attitude. He was also one of the first to suffer the resulting public indifference...