Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same shortage of sponsors for unrehearsed humor also killed the best new comedy show in years. The show: Keep Talking, a zany competition between teams of comic talkers trying to spin out a screwball tale while slipping in a screwball secret phrase that the opposition must spot. Literate and consistently funny, the show was carried by CBS all summer and into the fall without attracting a sponsor. Last week CBS decided that while it still liked Keep Talking, it could not afford to keep paying...
They rarely told him about department politics, but one evening, after a second brandy, Ford found himself saying that at a cocktail party Brockberg had said to him that his friend Greg was, well, without sufficient humor. Ford had thought he could state it less explicitly than that, but halfway through his sentance he realized that Greg already knew what he was going to say. Greg's eyes lit up with a look of disinterested amusement. Walking down the snowy sidewalk together afterwards, Ford apologized to Hall for his gaucherie, and Hall told him not to worry; Greg understood Brockberg...
...eyes of British officialdom, Heuss brought off his four-day official visit with tact, taste and humor. Said Heuss himself, when someone tried to compliment him on the sparse cheers he received: "Don't be ridiculous. Eighty percent were cheering for the Queen. 10% were cheering the horses, and 10% were cheering me-but they were Germans...
...seemed in good health and humor after attending the Mass of the Holy Spirit at St. Peter's, which preceded the conclave. Then, as he was resting after lunch, he collapsed with a heart attack. For years he had had a bad heart, in 1946 he had suffered a stroke; only last month he was hospitalized in Detroit for exhaustion and a general checkup. His U.S. colleagues, Cardinals Spellman and Mclntyre, reached his bedside in the North American College just after he died; saddened, they gave their dead friend absolution, and left almost immediately to take their places...
Monty is short with politicians, blunt with those who differed with him. But he shows a sense of humor even about war's more annoying cufuffles, i.e., flaps. And his reflections are diverting, whether he praises female nurses over male, defines the qualities of a good commander (including "an inner conviction which at times will transcend reason"), or sets down what a nation needs to survive the cufuffles of history ("a religion and an educated elite...