Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benny Goodman's jazzband. In On Your Toes, Bolger has his first chance to establish himself as a definite stage personality rather than a funny Broadway tap dancer. Called upon to impersonate a WPA music teacher who winds up as a master of ballet, his genuine charm and humor are instantly apparent. In fact, he and his teammate, pretty golden Doris Carson, seem to fit into that important theatrical niche vacated by the late Marilyn Miller & Jack Donahue...
...pretentious imposture, a masterpiece, a phony. Sparkenbroke will raise the same contradictory contentions. Like its predecessor it is a long (551 pp.), serious novel on a solemn theme. Whether it was heavily ridiculous or gravely sublime was a question for the reader's taste, sympathy, sense of humor. Discerning readers last week gave Sparkenbroke high marks for good intentions and pomposity, refused to consider it as a masterpiece, but conceded that its weighty persistence was more impressive than the average novel's. In a prose that at times had echoes of the late George Moore...
...could be produced. Inasmuch as the state is unable to prove that the corpse was Faulkner's we don't exactly see how the jury could convict Miss Andre. At any rate the dialogue is well written and the play is constructed with a reasonably sure touch. The humor is of the predictable type and not particularly annoying...
Then Dr. Filatov cuts two short slots in the opaque cornea, one on each side of the hidden pupil. Through those slots he slides a thin blade of ivory. This protects the patient's crystalline lens and prevents aqueous humor from escaping when Dr. Filatov cuts out a small disk from the cornea directly over the pupil...
...Boat Race Day is likely to be remembered by those who see it because of the orderliness of the crowds, their patient waiting, their good humor, quiet expectancy and hilarious enthusiasm...