Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt was in a little better than his usual good humor one day last week when his newshawks came to press conference. The session had been postponed from the usual 10:30 a. m. to noon to get maximum attendance. Soon he was pouring into their ears a tale of unethical practices, of rich men who had avoided taxes by hiring high-priced lawyers to find loopholes in the law. He had before him case histories provided by the Treasury Department. One man had incorporated his yacht and transferred to the corporation $3,000,000 in securities. Much...
...Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts of the East Room. That evening the President stuck to his armchair instead of retiring early as he does at official parties, and the Press went home as usual in high good humor...
...very different exit had been made by White House newshawks after one of the President's regular press conferences a week before. Then they were in anything but good humor and straggled through the lobby of the Executive Offices muttering audibly to one another the name of one Richard Waldo. What the President had said to them was "in committee of the whole" (off the record) but by last week the record was publicly apparent...
...scenery, his cast starving, his author (Eddie Albert) about to be lured by another producer, his backer a jittery character from Wall Street who has just stopped payment on a $15,000 check, Gordon Miller falters but never quite loses his show or his senses of duplicity and humor...
Enter the Duke and Duchess of York. "The Duchess of York does not think she has a sense of humor." Where is John of Gaunt? Where is Bolingbroke...