Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo Rose is the darling of U.S. sailors, G.I.s and Marines all over the Pacific. She is a Jap propagandist, but her broadcasts are popular among American listeners: she gives them humor, nostalgia, news, entertainment and good U.S. dance music. In a very feminine and friendly voice she murmurs...
Stephen Butler Leacock had several distinctions : he was one of the very few contemporary Canadians well-known outside of Canada; he was an economist who had a sense of humor; he taught economics and political science at McGill for 33 years; and he pleased readers throughout the world with his 30 books of light, tolerant satire. Among his best-known works: Literary Lapses, Behind the Beyond, Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy...
Artilleryman's Progress. At his headquarters, the giant smiled; there was no substitute for cannon. He read the reports streaming in, studied maps, made plans for new action. He was in rare humor...
...Leader's editors and staff (two girls), beaming over anniversary messages, recall amusedly one last year from a prominent anti-Communist whom the paper has often attacked. It read: "I find myself puzzled by its temperateness and very good humor-Westbrook Pegler...
Wine & Cake. There were rare intervals of crazy humor. Lieut. Vincent Kelley took a group into one building, killed two Germans and found a bottle of German Army issue champagne. The Germans at once counterattacked with 75 men and chased the small band of Americans away. "It couldn't have been the house they wanted," Kelley solemnly observed. "It wasn't worth a damn any more. They must have been sore about losing that champagne...