Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central Terminal, Yankee Stadium, the new Coliseum and the Empire State Building, sometimes came up with a firecracker or an empty piece of pipe, and only once (at the Paramount) with the real goods. Said one weary cop: "This city has plenty of wacks with a screwball sense of humor...
...show comes the overall impression that the only thing taboo in Joán Miró's weird world of pixilated fantasy and around the kiln in Barcelona is a deficient sense of humor...
Most whites took the changeover with composure, many with downright good humor. Said a white bank teller of the jubilant Negroes: "They'll find that all they've won in their year of praying and boycotting is the same lousy service I've been getting every day." On one bus a white man sitting near a Negro said loudly and pointedly: "I see this isn't going to be a white Christmas." The Negro looked up, smiled gently, replied firmly: "Yes sir, that's right." Suddenly, astonishingly, everybody on the bus was smiling...
This was the first joke ever told by Fred Allen, in a grammar-school revue. Over the next 50 years, a lot of his humor did not rise much above this level, but his nasally astringent tones and the cold poached eyes with which he regarded life were to be widely hailed as the attributes of a pungent social satirist. He was both more and less than that; in his best years, he was one of the funniest comedians in the U.S.; in lesser, later years he was an embittered heckler of most post-Allen entertainment...
...SAILOR, SENSE OF HUMOR & OTHER STORIES, by V. S. Pritchett. Critic Pritchett, who is also one of Britain's top short-story writers, sketching directly from life. The best items in this collection, extremely funny and uncommonly shrewd about people, have the impact of a bitter quarrel overheard...