Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Division, in which he won many a decoration during World War I, went an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Silver Star. The New Yorker this month reported from Tunisia on General Roosevelt: "He is at his best ... in battle; his gamecock strut and his slightly corny humor take on a new and attractive quality when exhibited under fire." Last week his citation reported that, during a savage enemy counterattack, General Teddy Jr. had proceeded to an advance observation post under intense shelling, strafing and dive-bombing, had stayed there until the tide was turned...
...Cartooning with its sense of humor is very important. It is an expression of our times. The Latin sense of humor is direct and brutal. They are surrealists in their cartoons. Their faces are so much deformed that sometimes they don't look like human beings. ... If the Latins want to portray a drunk they make a big shiny nose. Here in America the humor is much more delicate...
Steinberg feels that the U.S. has no really good humorous magazine, thinks The New Yorker too high-brow for the whole nation. His own brand of humor appeals to brows of all shapes. Enlisting in the U.S. Navy in January of this year, he received a commission the following month. Today Steinberg is in Washington, waiting to be shipped overseas...
...keeping our sense of humor, and having an enjoyable time...
...finance, the New York Times is to U.S. journalism. Rich in reputation, ripe in years, the Times is respected because it is thorough, dignified and decent. No one reads it for the lively approach. The Times has sometimes almost seemed to preen itself on its dowagerlike lack of humor, its presentation of all news in the same flat tone of voice...