Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought seriously that MacArthur's men were to be evacuated, or that they would get help. But while the U.S. Army Forces in the Far East were on their feet the fight would go on, blackly determined in action, flecked with the fine gold of good American humor when it got a breathing spell...
...anger to talk to them. In one cabin a sailor, whose right leg had been amputated at the knee, gazed across the room at another lad, with his left leg gone, lying morose and silent, too unhappy even to speak. The sailor wrote a note, with the grim humor of the valiant: "How about a dance?" The lad grinned, began to talk...
Banjo Eyes itself is more of a Cantor show window than a show. Loud, lavish, densely populated, it is full of corn-fed gags and Broadway energy. Though based on a funny farce, Three Men on a Horse, it remains faithful only to the plot, brazenly two-times the humor. The music is commonplace, the dancing lively and plentiful but uninspired. Pretty bad but never boring, Banjo Eyes serves well enough to bring home the prodigal...
Most expressive tribute to Beverly's bracing quality was paid by a Fort Logan soldier: "She has a sense of humor as sharp as jailhouse coffee." One of the most tender came to her from a boy at Fort Francis E. Warren, near Cheyenne, Wyo. Said he: "You couldn't seem any closer than you do coming into this big barracks room. Your voice is all sort of warm and sparkling. . . ." Most telling tribute of all came from Army Morale Officers who now send her daily announcements they want their men to remember...
Abeam with good humor, the Chicago Tribune's baronial Colonel Robert McCormick last week let his 3,000 employes in on a happy secret...