Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McLeod and the State Department got broken to each other, and McLeod was credited with a good job of administering the department's security and emergency refugee-relief programs. Today, inside the department, there is a grudging admission that McLeod, with his friendly personality and lively sense of humor, will make a creditable ambassador. Said a top State Department officer last week: "McLeod has learned a lot about the rules of the game and about international relations since he came here. He'll probably do a better job in Dublin than many people who might be picked from...
...matters involving courage, honesty and humor, the late Hilaire Belloc was the best judge of British character that France ever produced. But in most other aspects of life, he was one of the worst. In this authorized biography, Author-Actor Robert Speaight. an Anglo-Catholic, presents Belloc in all the fullness of flesh and mind...
...Countess Cathleen is not only the first play written by William Butler Yeats, but also the first play of the great Irish Renaissance. It is fundamentally a charming peasant fable, embroidered with beautiful threads of words, and although it lacks the more open humor and the more dignified grandeur of much of Synge, or of the later Yeats plays, it obtains strength from its air of simplicity, from the purity of the mythical tale its tells...
...whole, the production suffers from an absence of humor and intensity, and adds little worthwhile to Yeats except a chance to see and hear...
...only person in the cast who seemed to have any understanding of the play was Ethan Emery who was marvelously sardonic in a bit of satirical humor with a Mephistopholean laugh, representing Material Goods. Robert Hauert seemed to show possibility in his brief appearance as Strength, but the other players were barely competent...