Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swedes. They knew Herr Schmidt's humor was not all in fun. It was the start of the same old guessing game which began each year with the melting snows. Everyone would guess which way Adolf Hitler would jump next-then wonder how they could have missed the obvious. In 1940 the experts had Hitler invading France-but he struck at Norway first. In 1941 he was going against the British or Turkey-but he turned against Russia instead. Now, in 1942, it seemed that Hitler would strike toward the Russian Caucasus or the Suez Canal. Naturally, the Swedes...
Lord Linlithgow's own estates had prepared him to occupy the Viceroy's staggering marble "lodge"-which has six miles of corridors-with casual ease. His innate conservatism was softened by sociability and humor-his London town house once bore the deeply felt legend in brass "This Is Not the Russian Embassy" (which was next door). The Viceroy was at first greatly admired in New Delhi for his hard work, conciliatory attitude, patient fact finding, agricultural knowledge. When the Congress party's provincial ministers balked at taking office under the 1935 Act, because of the extraordinary powers...
...Plea. In Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, at a celebrity dinner of the Overseas Press Club, Maxim Litvinoff stood up in white-tie-&-tails to make his first public address as Russian ambassador. Round, homey Maxim Litvinoff spiced his speech with American colloquialisms, with an easy, audience-catching humor. But the speech was grave. Maxim Litvinoff pleaded...
Irrepressible American humor bubbled up out of the Jap-infested bamboo jungles of Bataan Peninsula last week. It had broad sweeps of satire, muted undertones of tragedy...
...draw women's styles especially), she got along fine as sports cartoonist, soon added a column of writing. On the sly she has been writing a novel; she says "I can't write a straight line any more than I can draw one," meaning she prefers humor...