Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently Johnson demortgaged his school. Charges of unorthodoxy and radicalism do not bother him.*In a period when most college presidents feel like Good Humor vendors in November, Johnson feels as perky as a Nebraska farmer who held his hogs for a high ceiling...
...Hattie McDaniel, whose bubbling, blaring good humor more than redeems the roaring bad taste of a Harlem number called Ice Cold Katie. > Ann Sheridan, as an experienced college girl, explaining in song, to a bevy of hastily dry-cleaned doves, "why every window has a window shade" and why "there's no partition in a davenport...
Bishop Wand also has a robust sense of humor. One of his favorite stories is about himself. While Wand was Archbishop of Brisbane, he visited a young clergyman in the interior. The young man was unmarried, ate all his meals at a rather simple restaurant to which he invited His Grace of Brisbane. The waitress knew her regular customers and took the young clergyman's order first. Then she turned to Archbishop Wand, wearing his reddish purple rabat (clerical bib) under his clerical collar to indicate that he was in Episcopal Orders. "And now, Robin Red Breast," said...
...Dark Eyes", which opened last night at the Plymouth, is a mixture of occasional humor and bad taste. Funny in parts, the show falls through the bottom when it attempts to sketch human beings. It is excellent only with wooden butlers...
...strongest single operation the U.S. had yet undertaken in the Pacific-they found no living creature except a lonesome dog. The timing must have been hairline: invading Allied troops found a container of hot coffee. Victory it was, but seldom has a victory been acknowledged with such wry humor. Among the echoing cliffs of Kiska a new word was born: JANFU ("Joint Army-Navy foul...