Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some precocious Ensign with a sense of humor, perhaps the result of crossed circuit of a misplaced since wave, recently referred to your correspondent as "Mr. Lonely Hearts" This, I presume, was one to my persistent efforts in trying to all some of the more worthwhile invitations which have been gracing the Bulletin Board in numerous quantities of late. To the aforementioned quipster, I respond with the following...
...King's Messenger. There is humor in Badoglio, a nostalgia for the past days of "glory" in the Italian campaign against Ethiopia, and a well-meaning sincerity. He usually speaks in Italian, although he knows French and a little English. Recently he flew to Naples to invite new strength into his Government. Particularly, he asked bearded, 70-year-old Count Carlo Sforza, who had returned to Italy after 16 years of exile, and the potbellied, stubby-haired philosopher and elder statesman, 77-year-old Benedetto Croce, to join with...
...better than almost anybody but Al Capone. Farrell's Studs Lonigan (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) became a synonym for the smalltime U.S. tough guy. With dogged earnestness, a lot of firsthand factuality (Farrell was born the son of a Chicago teamster in 1904) and a total lack of humor, Farrell painstakingly traced Studs's dingy career and its social context through three slablike volumes. None of the Studs series was quite as good as Volume I, but in the general flatness of U.S. letters, the trilogy raised Novelist Farrell to a knoblike eminence...
...Sultan know it was my birthday?" Harmless humor, said Witness Smith, and cracked: "She'd be very difficult to dispose of in the ordinary army barracks...
...five burlesque shows a week for 40 weeks a year (enough to make it pretty tiresome), hunts indecency in some 60 to 70 publications weekly. Said he: "After profound consideration, I didn't find anything. . . . lewd [in Esquire']. ... It is in the spirit of good clean slapstick humor and we could all use a little more of it right...