Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Motors. The rugged route was a test of men as well as motors. As the nerve-racking trial ground on, Sydney Garage Owner Jack Murray proved that his rowdy humor and his mechanical skill were an unbeatable combination. Along the way he touched off sticks of explosive gelignite that blew competitors out of much-needed rest. Outside Broome, Murray's 1948 Ford V-8 (which he uses for a tow car at home) ran out of gas; Murray promptly made a deal with another driver, whose car was stranded with burned-out bearings. After filling his Ford from...
...show little tendency toward elation or depression, but they are optimists according to the definition, 'one who believes the future to be still uncertain' . . . They show little need to dominate. They are willing to live and let live. They have many friends and a good sense of humor, and they spend little time prating about 'the good old days.' They are receptive to change . . . and often talk as though they expect to be around for many years...
...girl friend enough money to buy a house, in which she spends the rest of her days, yacking at her boarders to do what the synopsis calls "striking out in search of contentment, knowledge and peace." In the general emotional drizzle, the scriptwriting provides a few rainbows of humor ("There's one thing about California," says Shirley. "No matter how hot it gets in the daytime, there's nothing to do at night"). And Director Daniel Mann, who also handled Shirley in Come Back, Little Sheba, occasionally makes the best of a bad job. As for Shirley, About...
Citation: "Sidewalk superintendent of our times, voice of our conscience, literate exponent of the belief that humor ought to speak the truth." Paul Johannes Tillich, theologian...
Time has mellowed Cèline's grisly humor without muting his jungle screams or lessening his power to describe gutter-snipery with the force of an apachefied Charles Dickens. Gnignol's Band depicts the life of French crooks in the underworld of London during the First World War. The book's hero, Ferdinand, is a victim of a German strafing attack, which leaves him feeling as if ''nailed to the shutter like an owl." He has a deafening singing noise in one ear. a gnawing migraine, a mere stump of a left arm. Honorably...