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Word: humorously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fashioned notion that the British have no sense of humor is amply disproved by Punch's May 7 spoof of Merton's painting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...goes-when it goes. But all too often under Mervyn Le Roy's dull-as-drill direction, the gallus humor does not snap, the slapstick does not slap. And pretty soon the moviegoer begins to wonder why he ever got into this man's Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1958 | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...shot) delighted in shooting at the Empress' swans to torment her. When in good spirits, he would slap Josephine on the shoulders while she begged, "Do stop it, do stop it, Bonaparte." Josephine's maid, Mlle. Avrillon, recalled, "We could estimate the degree of his good humor by how much he hurt us. One day when he was obviously better pleased than usual, he pinched my cheek so hard I could not repress a scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Hero | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Undergraduate poetry is a touchy subject, and Robert Johnston's two poems are therefore better left to speak for themselves. Arthur Freeman's work is easier to discuss, for it is much better. His humorous poems are truly funny rather than merely ingenious, the kind of humor at which we laugh without thinking first. His more serious offering, "Storm in Equinox," is one of the best things to come out of South Street of late. Gabrielle Ladd, a Wellesley senior, is the third poet, although her relationship to the Advocate is elusive...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: The Advocate | 5/31/1958 | See Source »

...value of anything available. This is especially unfortunate since their judgements are bad. For example, the section on the Lampoon declares, "With the return of Thresky the Golden Ibis to his perch above the building, the Poonsters launched into a year which saw the return of high quality humor to the magazine...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Three Twenty Two | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

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