Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the University's standpoint student fire education does not necessarily mean public service. This is due to the perennial menace of the volunteer fireman who belongs to the inebriated or unique sense of humor category. Four extinguishers were refilled yesterday because of week-end activity by this group. Veritable chaos would undoubtedly result from false alarms were officials to make extensive additions to the present stock of boxes...
Guatemala. In the ruins of the Mayan city of Piedras Negras, an expedition headed by Dr. J. Alden Mason of Philadelphia's University Museum found a rectangular limestone carving in high relief which showed plainly that the unknown sculptor had a sense of humor, at least of satiric portraiture. The block, 49 in. long, was called a lintel, although its scanty margins indicated that it was used not over a doorway but as a wall tablet. Parts of the carving were effaced, but by squeezing every available clue Miss M. Louise Baker, experienced archeological artist, was able to make...
...Cartoonist Reuben Lucius Goldberg astounded the newspaper trade by suddenly abandoning the grotesquely exaggerated pictorial humor which had made him rich & famed. In place of the hilarious daily strip which the McNaught Syndicate was happily selling far & wide, "Rube" Goldberg offered a serious, human-interest character named Doc Wright, similar in tone but not in inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist...
There is something deliciously subtle and sharp in the French sense of humor, especially when it deals with the relationships between la femme et I'homme. And this is what "Carnival In Flanders" (time, 1618) is about: the "heroic" resistance the women in a Flemish town put up against the Spanish Duke come to sack the village--by pretending that the pompous, ineffectual mayor is dead and going therefore into mourning! The picture is replete with hilarious situation, good lines (there are English titles), and piercing caricatures. Alerme as the Burgomaster, Francoise Rosay as his wife, significantly listed...
...Celine's Journey to the End of the Night. The sixth book of a 37-year-old, self-educated Frenchman, it has much in common with Celine's masterpiece in its mood of intense disgust, its savage satirical portraits, its hatred of hypocrisy and its wild, grotesque humor. But unlike Journey to the End of the Night, it is compact and tightly-woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types of French provincial society at a moment of great tension. Conceived in the grand manner...