Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps you have noticed, some of the instructors at the School really have a keen sense of humor. This is borne out by the story one officer tells of his experiments in mixing drinks. Recently he came up with a particularly lethal potion as is evidenced by the name he gave it: "My Heart Stood Still...
...someone try to make the introduction to Disbursing Ashore sound interesting? The title on the first page is as fine an example of forced humor as we have seen for some time: "Disbursing Ashore or a "Wave" Rocks the Ordnance Laboratory (with some mention of the accounting)." The real humor of the situation lies in the fact that many of us may get shore billets and run into the "Wave" situation...
Stone is unquestionably the only bright spot in the production. At times, however, he tends to be stiff and a little stagy in the role of Grandpa Vandehoff. But his natural humor does come across the footlights, which is more than can be said for anybody else in the cast...
...those days Andre Maurois wrote: ". . . There was an immediate clash between the morbid susceptibilities of Monsieur Desjardins . . . the diabolical maliciousness of Gide. . . . The Germans . . . enveloped the lucid ideas of the Frenchmen in ... abstractions . . . Lytton Strachey ... in amazement at our lack of humor . . . went to sleep. ... Its virtues far outweighed its drawbacks. . . . There was talk of giving Paul Desjardins the Nobel Prize for Peace...
...plane, quite naturally shoots the Nazi down. When the in-flying American has a hell of a time convincing British authorities by radio that he is not a Nazi, Doctor Annabella is luckily on deck to save the situation. It is a busy picture, relieved by moments of unconscious humor. Good shot: a plane swooping down on a lone parachutist, as seen from the pilot's seat...