Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down at least a thousand of the most influential books in the world . . . yet the total result never amounted to anything in the least like erudition. His faculty for ignoring and forgetting the innumerable things that he considered unimportant approached the phenomenal." He had practically no sense of humor, he was a vegetarian, and never understood Shakespeare. His theory of education: that a child knows all the right answers already, has only to be asked the right questions. On the rare occasions when a pupil needed severe punishment, instead of striking the child Alcott had the child strike...
...plan was, not to have one play Prince and the other Pauper, but to have Billy play all the palace scenes and Bobby play all the guttersnipe scenes, regardless of which character appeared in them. This plan came to nothing because it suited the Mauch twins' sense of humor to switch from time to time. This was by no means the first trick of the kind they had played. The Mauch brothers got their Hollywood jobs not because they looked alike but because they both look like Fredric March. Producer Wallis, who had been scouring...
...melee of newspaper films which has flooded the motion picture industry comes at last some really excellent entertainment. "Love is News" featuring Loretta Young and Tyronne Power provides amusement galore for a not too critical audience. Although the plot of the film is weak, good acting and sparkling humor soon overcome this drawback. Loretta Young plays the part of an heiress who decides to throw some of the publicity which has been hounding her over to Tyronne Power, a clever and particularly offending reporter. With this as its basis, the picture proceeds to develop to a high level of comedy...
Manhattan Lawyer McKelvey, now 74, reviews the first 50 years of law reviews. [To the charge that law reviews are "stupid, dry, uninteresting . . . unleavened with humor," he answers: "Who would be likely to resort to a legal periodical for his humor? Certainly not a lawyer or judge. . . . The law review . . . [is] the vehicle of thought between legal scholars and the practitioners and judges...
With great earnestness, no sense of humor, an entirely undisciplined style Evelyn Scott attempted to raise from the dead the following peacefully slumbering corpse: how shall a second-rate writer support a wife, two children and his own self-respect during an economic depression? Though Evelyn Scott lists herself with the great minority of Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, few readers will count her their equal. While they may give her solemn approbation for her attempt "to convey something of the nightmare negation of the human by the machine," they will close her book without much fellow feeling...