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Word: humours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resorting to the gratuitous flashiness of a Norman Jewison work). The jokes provided in the Ustinov-Ira Walach screenplay are unfailingly gentle, and, in the case of some bits involving Robert Morley and Casar Romero, quite funny. What the film lacks in physical beauty and glamour, it replaces with humour and heart. I'll take two inarticulate bumblers falling in love while their dinner burns over two rich sex-symbol thieves any day in the week...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Hot Millions | 11/26/1968 | See Source »

...whole life becomes permeated by organic chemistry. You lose your sense of humour. You adjust to a cultural vacuum. You dream about organic compounds. You hallucinate laboratories, even blackout. And you save your mind by contem-plating the nondescript charisma of your friends the poisons...

Author: By George B. Able, | Title: Chem S-20 Is Total Experience | 8/6/1968 | See Source »

...press-coverage, the Lampoon announced that arrangements were almost completed to reclaim the bird. According to United Press International, John Goetlet, "handsome heir to one of New York's greatest real estate fortunes and treasurer of the Harvard Lampoon, spent a half hour explaining the subtleties of American college humour to Tsarapkin in his Park Avenue Headquarters. Asked by reporters to smile he replied, 'I am unsmiling...

Author: By Betsy Nadas, | Title: Salute to Times Past: The Lampoon lbis | 6/3/1968 | See Source »

...three styles of comedy on display at Dunster House this weekend balance one another perfectly. It is a sensitive and sensible journey from the ravaging whimsy of Pinter to the mystical Aria da Capo to the smoking humour of Sheridan's The Critic...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Iman, | Title: One-Acters | 4/27/1968 | See Source »

When Gov. Rockefeller arrived at headquarters after snow delayed his trip from Albany his contagious good humour was in sharp contrast to his workers' general uneasiness...

Author: By L. GEOFFREY Cowan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Write-In Votes for Ambassador Lodge Send 'Non-Candidate' to N.H. Victory | 3/11/1964 | See Source »

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