Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor work at sea he roars in the voice that has made him renowned as the tough guy of the fleet. But his junior officers and enlisted men know that Bull Halsey is no sundowner: under the bushy eyebrows The Old Man's eyes gleam with good humor. The Bull is a softie, and his men love him as they love few other admirals...
This week, 228 Weegee photographs and 9,000 Weegee words appear in a book, Naked City (Essential Books, $4), that O. Henry might have done if he had worked with a Speed Graphic. There is the same puckish humor, the same teary sentimentality. The book gives a first-rate reporter's picture of Manhattan...
Union pickets at the plants paid little heed to those who bought single copies, sometimes spilled the bundles of those who bought more. Many of the strikers were in high good humor; they had made a killing on Picket Line in the third race at Aqueduct, collecting $46.20 for their $2 investment...
...Humor was the thing that people missed most. PM carried a resume of a dozen comic strips. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, mugging and gesturing, gave a Sunday radio reading of the Dick Tracy strip, ordered municipal station WNYC to have the comics read each...
...look back now I recall that my late colleague, Heywood Broun, who really was a friend in the old days, foreswore his sense of humor and, I thought, his sense of fairness when he became a man with a message...