Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sherbrooke, Quebec Sirs: It is with genuine regret that I read James C. Barton's letter in TIME, Jan. 27-rotten taste and damned rude. Let me assure you that some of us Britishers do not have ''so strong a sense of humor." For shame, Mister Barton! J. RICHARDS PETRIE Fredericton...
...mighty bear has momentarily ceased his savage growls. He is still stalking his rightful prey, but with a sort of grim humor he has reared himself upon his hind legs and is waving his murderous paw with a delicate and artistic grace. To be sure, Gulliver is brutally blunt at times. For example, when he suspects that he is dealing with a species of miniature greed and exploitation, he roars out a stentorian refutation of the whining little fawners' claims, and sends them quaking and tumbling before the blast. There's nothing shilly-shally about "The New Gulliver"; it takes...
...great good humor Conductor Arturo Toscanini of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society was promenading the deck of the S.S. Lafayette as she steamed up New York harbor, when reporters clambered aboard to ask: 1) whether he was going to retire and 2) whether he had given his wedding ring to Mussolini. The Maestro, furious at both rumors, trembled, wheeled, bolted...
...plan and the legal devices to make it workable had still to be fleshed out, but the skeleton idea had taken form. The farm leaders marched in on Secretary Wallace. Edward O'Neal, Farm Bureau glad hander, spoofed them and slapped their backs to get them in good humor. After a brief session with Secretary Wallace, the farm leaders retired to draft a plan. Meanwhile, at a press conference President Roosevelt outlined the plan which the farm leaders were about to draft. Export subsidies were unthinkable, he explained, because, "We must avoid any national policy which will result...
Pirates with Champagne. Another time Editor Woodhead had the myrmidons of Chinese justice hunting for that dangerous conspirator "Hans Andersen whose volume of Fairy Tales for the children may be purchased at a low price at the Tientsin Press." Although Chinese pride themselves on their own sense of humor, it never occurred to them that a scholarly British editor, who got out in English each year the fat, solemn, statistics-crammed China Year Book, could possibly have a sense of humor, fantasy and practical joking...