Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next the motorcade sped 32 miles to Duxford where Queen Mary was waiting to have luncheon. In high good humor King George cracked jokes and roared with mirth during the meal. Thus two hours were whiled away, every minute being needed to get 182 fighting ships into the air ready for the "Fly Past" over Duxford. This was made at the unusually high altitude for an air force review of 1,000 feet "because the king is greatly affected by noise." So were 150,000 spectators. Even at 1,000 feet the menacing clatter of the air armada filled Britons...
...than a leisurely collector of old Southern impressions, exhibiting dissociated bits of conversations, rare historical items, with the polite, after-dinner wit of one displaying trophies of a hunt. Always contrasting feverish urban affectations with the contented days and rich histories of small Southern and Western towns, he finds humor, common sense and human decency characteristic of the provincials. His portraits of them would carry more conviction if occasionally human sweat and hot temper broke the serenity of his air-conditioned South...
Last week the Department of Agriculture, in high good humor, informed waiting husbandmen that 1935 crop prospects were, with the exception of potatoes, sweet potatoes and rice, spectacularly better than last year's. Barley was due for the second biggest crop in history. The rye harvest, which last year was the poorest in 40 years, will be so big this year that AAA has already made plans for a crop reduction program. Despite floods and a cold, wet spring in the Central States, the corn crop was running 50% better than last year. Whereas on April i the Govern...
Such an award speaks for itself. Last week the patriotic British "Soupstakes" promoters further indulged their sense of humor by twitting U. S. housewives who entered the competition but failed to place. Tongue in cheek, the Soupstakers held up to British ridicule Mrs. M. H. Houghlan of Broadus, Mont., disqualified because the chief ingredients of her vegetable soup are beef knuckles and heel of beef. Also calculated to put Britons into stitches was the revelation that an egg dumpling soup was entered in the vegetable classic by Mrs. S. H. Long, No. 403 Sunnyside Ave., Waterloo, Iowa...
...farm near Carrollton, Ga., Nathan Brown was stung by a bumblebee, ran toward his house, was bitten by a green snake, headed for town, was bitten by a bulldog, pulled into town in a bad humor...