Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on. "In fact, as you've no doubt noticed, the whole building has a medieval atmosphere. We are very proud of it and try to take good care of it because we feel that a good atmosphere is very important. It takes a happy group to produce humor." He smiled at the candidates. They looked back at him. One or two of them smiled...
...like to have you write about hackneyed subjects like the central kitchen. As for sex, sex can be hilarious, but it oughtn't to be obscene. Use taste." (The business-like lecturer in front nodded in agreement and shuffled his notes.) "Yes, use your taste. Otherwise, though, in humor nothing is sacred...
...well to explain at the outset, is also the name of a newspaper comic strip character who, for some unclear reason, comes to life to haunt his creator. The fact that Rumple is invisible to everybody else in the cast provides Irving Phillips' book with its main source of humor. Though scarcely original, the joke is still intermittently funny...
...Adversaries. Tito grows through the book from an awkward villager to a smooth party functionary to a puffed-up dictator wearing the most splendid uniforms since Göring. He alternately appears a shrewd peasant, a cold-eyed killer, a sentimental family man. There is rough humor as well as ruthlessness in him, courage but little real rashness, some pity but no compassion. His friends and enemies were men of great complexity. There was Milovan Djilas, the Montenegrin partisan who seemed determined to infuse some humanity into the Communist machine and today, from jail, is one of its more eloquent...
...those who are more interested in developing their own techniques either in political or college editorials, drama, art, or literary criticism, humor or human interest, the editorial board presents an open field...