Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Paul Leach of the Chicago Daily News came a muffled crack: "He's cutting off the tail right behind the ears." The President did not hear it. In high good humor he concluded the conference, turned to his next important appointment of the day: a meeting with Business bigwigs to discuss co-operation between Government and Business (see col. 3). After hearing such an effusion of Presidential sentiments, the reporters retired amazed and mystified. Even the "death sentence" of the Holding Company Act permits first degree holding companies under certain conditions. Abolition of all holding companies would break...
...week's end, sleepless and haggard, President Lebrun sent once more for Camille Chautemps, asked him to try to form a Cabinet. "We have been around in a circle," declared the Premier-Designate with an exhausted attempt at humor, "and we are back where we started...
...town. Playwright Jackson had failed to scrape together enough action for three acts. What he had written was a costume play on wordy marital misunderstandings. When the critical votes were counted, there were no thumbs up. After six performances the Marches & Director Cromwell took the hint with rare good humor. Their show closed the next night, but before it did Marwell Productions took to the advertising columns of Manhattan's newspapers with a graceful exit line...
...scraps of gossip, nattering the King's fat mistress, patching up quarrels between, Austrian supporters, suffering boredom, nervousness, tantrums and fears of revolution, then making fun of everybody and everything to Metternich. Because she did so with a mixture of malice, snobbishness, impatience, heartlessness and occasional humdrum housewifely humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife of the Austrian Ambassador: "Do you know the kind of woman who always wants to be the centre of social interest...
Stage Manager P. J. Carolan, in playing Fluther Good, presents an ordinary, ignorant, proud Dublin tenement-dweller with splendid vividness. M. J. Dolan is Uncle Peter Flynn, and amiable old man made the pathetic butt of a Socialist's humor. That socialist, played by Denis O'Dea, is reduced to pillaging and playing cards, nervously squatting on the floor of an attic, because he will not participate in a futile rebellion. Mareen Delany and May Craig are splendid as a pair of garrulous, short-tempered kind-hearted fishwives, the latter singing "Rule Brittania" throughout the uprising. All these people...