Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wilson's freewheeling comments brought him plenty of drubbings from Congress and the press, but through the bitter days he kept his own sense of humor intact. "The price of progress is trouble," he once remarked, "-and I must be making lots of progress." The turning point probably came after Ike himself reproved Wilson for saying that the National Guard was a hideout for draft-dodgers during the Korean war. Wilson's wife Jessie promptly cracked right back at the President. She was "indignant" she said. "I think the President should have stood back of Mr. Wilson instead...
...survivors of the revolution maintain a grim sense of humor. "Have you heard that the new Hungarian calendar has only eleven months?" asks the first Hungarian. "Yes," replies the second. "Premier Kadar has eliminated October...
...there is humor too-often right in the midst of misfortune, as in what might be called "Coming Home from the Funeral." And there is small-boy adventure, whether with girls or tram rides or being sent to the tobacconist's for "an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug." O'Casey everywhere respects the dignity of childhood as a full existence in itself, as he recaptures a boy's hazy sense that a world offered by Victorian grownups as square is, all the same round...
...Armand is such an average Jean that chauffeurs, spotting him near the Daimler, ask him whom he drives for. Can this shy, sweet and sad duke ever find Miss Right? Out of this soapy dilemma, cosmopolitan, gourmettlesome Author Ludwig Bemelmans, 59, blows yet another bubble of sentimental whimsy, wry humor and worldly innocence...
Someone asked about editors' criticism of candidate writings. "What if you disagree with a criticism?" The impeccable dresser answered again. "Well," he said, pulling at his lip, "humor is very nebulous and editors might even express contradictory opinions. But if you're broadminded you should be able to learn something from any comment. If you should sometime find a really asinine comment, it's quite all right to express your disagreement, but with tact." He smiled. "Yes, use tact." A few of the candidates smiled...