Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper misconstrued some remarks in a Libby speech to mean that he had accidentally come across the carbon 14 discovery, came out next day with a story headlined. SCIENTIST STUMBLES ON NEW METHOD. Back in the Chicago lab, Libby's assistants hit the ceiling, but regained their good humor and hung a plaque saying: "On this spot W. F. Libby, 40, stumbled (for three years) on the carbon 14 dating method." Age of Bison. Libby is a solemn, slow-spoken and serious man, and in his office at the AEC he seems weighed down, even a little awed...
Marty. The love story of a "very good butcher"; home truth and homely humor in the life of an ordinary man-well perceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky, well expressed by Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair (TIME, April...
Each of the ten imaginary nightmares in Russell's new collection is a cute little fantasy, as impish as it is artless. Each turns around a point of topical interest and displays a sense of humor which even Punch might blanch at. Samples...
...head-whirling spin on the Washington merry-go-around. Author Alfred (Raising a Riot) Toombs's hot-weather farce hilariously ribs and roams the nation's capital, from cocktail binges to congressional investigations. The underlying moral, if there is one, is that the national sense of humor is a standard of sanity to which all Americans may profitably repair...
...recent years Philosopher Bertrand Russell has taken to fiction, but fiction has not yet taken to Philosopher Russell. The reason is that when logicians with a sense of humor start toying with storytelling, their mighty brains behave like dancing elephants playing dancing mice. The fiction they write is more sophisticated than nursery rhymes but every bit as childish: only once in a blue moon does a logician like Lewis Carroll come along and succeed in transforming the kindergarten into Wonderland...