Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...area His Majesty tried to grant as a concession to "Standard Oil" (TIME, Sept. 9) but smaller. Since Britain and France each hopes to tap Ethiopia's trade by offering the Empire a corridor to the sea through its colony. Dictator Mussolini was again overindulging his irrepressible sense of humor when he ended by declaring: "Italy, and not Britain or France, should make that sacrifice...
...Hell were well greased and I slid down the incline as fast as any boy in his teens ever did.) His pious father could not abide him. (I was the first Rounsevell ever to drink, curse and play cards.} From an Irish grandfather he acquired "a sense of humor, a taste for good liquor, a go-to-hell attitude." At 13 he left home, became in turn a farmhand, livery stableboy. book agent, hobo, telegraph lineman, miner, carpenter, banker. In 1913 he swore off liquor, has been a teetotaler ever since. (There are few men who in 18 years enjoyed...
...Good Humor Corp. of America declares dividends whenever the idea pops into the busy head of Michael J. (''Mike") Meehan. Last week Mr. Meehan passed out a 50¢ dividend. Most of the half dollars clinked into Mr. Meehan's personal pocket. A few found their way to his good friend Alfred E. Smith...
Writing not of politicians by & large, but of such specialized spellbinders as Big Bill Thompson, Tom Heflin, Cole Blease, Smith Brookhart, and Huey Long, Author Wallis' humor is often dated, with the date somewhere before 1929. And his grave instructions that candidates emulate the more impressive fatuities of eminent statesmen lose much of their sardonic sting when it is noted that most of his examples are chosen from the doings of political has-beens...
...through the most ingenious maneuvers of his enemies and now permitting him to adhere to men like Babcock, his confidential secretary, who "fished for gold in every stinking cesspool." That Grant's career was inconsistent, Dr. Hesseltine fully realizes. He seems less aware of its grotesqueness, its humor, and its influence on the course of democratic government. As a result the two brief chapters in The Education of Henry Adams remain the best summary of Grant's limitations. In himself Grant seemed to contain several distinct personalities: 1) the timid man who could not refuse a gift or disappoint...