Word: jocular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jocular were the promises Eddie Cantor sang into his microphone six years ago. Now Comedian Cantor is president of the American Federation of Radio Artists...
White Banners (Warner Bros.) continues the campaign of moral uplift which its author, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, started in Magnificent Obsession and Green Light. Central character of Green Light was a bubbly jocular minister who, when the minor characters in the story became upset, explained to them that humanity was a kind of automotive parade best governed by the traffic signals of unselfishness. In White Banners, the minister is replaced by a warm-hearted maid-of-all-work named Hannah (Fay Bainter). Otherwise, the formula is much the same. When Hannah straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher...
...cousin by marriage, and over all the Noyes pieces appeared an explicit imprimatur from both the interested parties. U. S. editors were surprised by but had to admire the racy, tabloidal flavor which Publisher Noyes achieved in his articles, reaching a peak in the King's jocular query to Mr. Noyes asking if he had brought a shotgun to "cajole" him into marrying "Cousin" Wallis...
Awarded. To Brooklyn Matador Sidney Franklin: a $7,000 judgment against Columbia Pictures Corp., whose cinema Throwing the Bull used his name in a "jeering, jocular and undignified manner'' (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934); by the New York State Court of Appeals, in Albany...
...Addis Ababa the receipt by a U. S. cameraman of a jocular cablegram from his home office, "Presume Addis next; suggest you pick out shelter now," leaked out to cause virtual panic as thousands of natives grabbed their rifles and bolted pell-mell out of the Capital, thinking it was about to be bombed...