Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most jubilant candidate of all last week was Harry Truman. Not only did Eisenhower's withdrawal remove his most popular opponent. In high good humor he let it be known that he would not have minded another month's delay in the announcement, while GOPsters wrangled among themselves. Harry Truman was convinced that Eisenhower had helped him a lot more than Wallace had hurt...
...Reagan committee had disbanded, a year later, when a CRIMSON editor undertook to advise entering Harvard Freshmen on "The Truth About 'Cliffe Girls." Starting magnanimously, he wrote, "Nobody will deny that they're intelligent. A good many of them have fine senses of humor. But," he continued, "when it comes to beauty that Hollywood wouldn't be ashamed of, there are some lookers mixed in among a vast majority of twisted-seamed, straight-haired bespectacled young women who are, aesthetically speaking, nonentities...
Most Democratic workers knew Candidate Stevenson only as a name. A grandson of Grover Cleveland's Vice President, he is a suave, able, well-liked socialite lawyer with an anxious expression, a rueful laugh, a lemony sense of humor-and a tongue in his head that has won him a reputation in Chicago for soundly progressive ideas. He has been away from Chicago for nearly seven years. He served as a wartime assistant to Secretaries Frank Knox, Cordell Hull and Ed Stettinius; he went abroad on several missions for the State Department. Stevenson has numerous friends both...
...then Fatima tries to draw some human warmth out of Jinnah, who completely lacks a sense of humor. During a trip in the Governor General's personal plane, Jinnah essayed a joke with his fellow passengers, forgot the point, mumbled to a stop. "You didn't finish," chided sister Fatima...
...Portsmouth, N.H. Herald) was taking James Robert Williams'* Out Our Way. His homely handiwork was the biggest drawing card on N.E.A.'s list. His panels (single pictures) tell an anecdote but no continued stories. Like the soft light of a kerosene lamp, they light up, with humor and understanding, the quiet corners of everyday life that are passed over by the searchlights of the news. The runny-nosed children and distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently comic memories of many an American childhood. "Bull...