Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shoals. But during the 1920'$ the times were out of joint for insurgents and Mr. Norris was changing. The drooping mustache with which he went to Congress became short and bristling, then disappeared entirely. His fighting spirit gave way to an air of disillusionment and a touch of humor...
Sculptor Paul Manship's gigantic fountain of a leaping Prometheus has stood patiently in the sunken plaza of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center for three years, the butt of more violent criticism, more half-baked humor than any Manhattan Statue since the erection of Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue. Last week artisans at the Roman Bronze Works were putting finishing touches on one of the biggest jobs of bronze casting the company has ever handled, and workmen in Rockefeller Center were chopping holes in the Fifth Avenue pavement for a statue of Atlas destined to distract public attention from...
...proof of his enduring identity, Mr. Cohan is exactly the same person as he was last year in "Dear Old Daddy". A steady, solid, unstartling business man with a constant flow of good humor and dessicated sentiment is again overwhelmed by a rush of romantic events, with which he has had no experience of coping. The first scene sees him happily free; the middle of the second act sees him thoroughly enmeshed; the final scene sees him once again disengaged, through no dramatic denouement or artistic solution, but rather through the magical effects of Mr. Cohan's simple integrity, aided...
...intimate circle of his relatives and friends Professor Peabody was endeared by his friendliness, insight, sympathy, and humor. These qualities were often expressed in little essays privately printed for those who knew him, and sometimes as verses appearing as dedicatory lines in his published works. His was a life well rounded out, full of happiness sand also of fortitude in sorrow. He will be happily and gratefully remembered...
...very much lighter vein-and this cousin Newbold reserved for the fourth daily installment of his account, tucking it away unobtrusively-King Edward later evinced what seemed to be the part-owner of the Star a sense of humor "American" rather than "English." His Majesty was graciously pleased to utter to Mrs. Simpson's second cousin by marriage these words, related by Cousin Newbold as a merry royal jest...