Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play has many picturesque moments, one towering one: the trial scene, with Christ, surrounded by saints and angels, in the Judgment Seat. At high moments, Cenodoxus is capable of a stern eloquence; at low ones, of a quaint humor. But except as a spectacle, the play limps, largely because Playwright Bidermann burdened his hero with the sin of Pride, "as the most decent for portrayal on the stage." It is also the most deadening; about all a playwright can do is lambaste it. Had Cenodoxus-who was, after all, a Parisian-gone in for a few of the more scarlet...
...silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street. Booth Tarkington's novel is scarcely a generation old, but the folkways Seventeen describes, the gawky naturalness of most of its young people, the tolerant humor and humanity with which its adults are able to straighten out youth's scrapes, make it seem like something from the far past. Members of the American Youth Congress may not like it. But if they want to know how their parents acted at about the same age, they may never...
...Lampoon has laid an egg,--again. With its usual feeble attempt at humor, it has bungled itself into the national limelight by a ruthless and unwarranted attack on one of the finer things in life, Ann Sheridan. Of course, anyone with any discrimination knows that Miss Sheridan is hotter than West, greater than Garbo, and the oomphiest...
...living: housing projects and sports and merry-making (as everybody knows, the Nazis have suppressed all three). In between we catch occasional glimpses of what the Nazis do: goose-stepping and listening to the guttural shrieks of Der Fuchrer. These contrasts are worked out with the imperturbable British humor which throughout saves "The Lion Has Wings" from becoming annoying...
...Miss Florence Horsbrugh, new Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, made her maiden speech to the House of Commons last week in smooth observance of its tradition that a new member should begin by speaking with modesty and humor about nothing of importance. "Maiden aunts are the subject of songs and stories, but they are some of the most useful members of the community," chirped Miss Horsbrugh pleasantly. "I speak with feeling, being one of them!" When Health's Horsbrugh ventured to say that many females of from 60 to 65 are "tired women," Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill...