Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mathematically, their plans don't yet add up. But their problem is less a mathematical equation than it is a human one. Sir Stafford Cripps, who I had always supposed was an archangel of austerity, turned out to be a warm, genial, thoroughly pleasant personality, with plenty of humor - and goodness knows, Britain's terrific problems will have to be solved in human terms, not just mathematical ones...
...sleeved, blue middy outfits. Los Angeles mothers complained that their offspring not only stayed awake until all hours because of daylight-saving time, but howled for refreshments. They asked the city council to draft an ordinance putting a 9 o'clock curfew on the tinkling bells of Good Humor wagons...
Loyalty is the first page in Alben Barkley's book. In his 23 years in Congress, he dutifully voted as a party regular, was elected majority leader in 1937. No man was more popular with his colleagues. His good humor was legendary, his wit the Senate's best...
...resent the satires on British mores of such writers as Max Beerbohm, "Saki," and Evelyn Waugh, but he will concede humor to the contrariness of inanimate objects-such as the collar-button under the bureau-preferably someone else's collar-button. He dislikes gloomy foreign philosophies such as Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism, and he likes to see them made fun of, in his fashion. Recently he has been getting what he wants in some spirited exercises in the Spectator's colums...
There were other choices. In Warsaw last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov (who was in high good humor) pointed out one. At the end of his brisk three-day session with satellite diplomats, he issued a "new" offer to the West which, in gist, proposed that all four occupying powers get out of Berlin -set up a "democratic" German government for all of Germany, and withdraw their troops. (The Warsaw communique added, however, that Russia would still want a hand in running the Ruhr.) This alternative had considerable attractions for the Kremlin: they had experience in setting up governments...