Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in the company of men whose lives and works have been devoted to evil, Walter Ulbricht stands out as a man without warmth or sentiment, humor or mercy. "In Ulbricht," wrote a commentator who found some redeeming features in other German Communists, is "only the worst." Another once described him thus: "Ulbricht is the kind of man who wants to enter a house which is guarded by a policeman at the front door, then decides it is easier to go in by the back door. He first begs a slice of bread, then seduces the maid, cleans...
...excess-profits tax. House Speaker Joe Martin outlined the problem in one sentence. Emerging from a half-hour meeting in which he tried to get support for EPT extension from New York's old (77) Dan Reed, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, Martin reported, in characteristic good humor: "We were only one word apart-he said 'no' and I said 'yes.' " Last week the one-word distinction caught House Republicans in a party-rending conflict between Dan Reed's belief in precedent and principle and Joe Martin's convictions on loyalty...
Ritchie's stack of orders revealed that the additive was used in tinkling Good Humor wagons. Such hard-fisted businesses as the Gillette Co. and General Foods Corp. were satisfied AD-X2 customers. Engineers from industry, mechanics from the Army and Navy, battery salesmen, all praised the additive in testimony before the committee. But no one could swear that AD-X2 had really revived their batteries. "Suppose you have a cold," suggested Dr. Astin, "and you take some aspirin, and you are better the same day. Did the aspirin do it, or would you have been better anyway...
Long before McCarthy was a national figure, evidence began to accumulate of how deeply the U.S. Government in the 1930s and '40s had been penetrated by Communists and their sympathizers. The scornful cartoons of the '30s, showing nervous "reactionaries" looking under the bed for Reds, lost their humor as one ex-Communist after another told his shocking story. There were, in sober truth, Reds under the bed-and not only under it. Emerging and increasing evidence of this was politically embarrassing to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party...
...Sense of Humor. In New York City, headed for a European tour, Mrs. Virginia Roth, 25, woke up in a Manhattan hotel to find missing 1) her husband Marvin, 2) all her extra clothes, 3) $3,700 in cash, later explained to police: "He's quite a practical joker...