Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest collection of stories, essays, profiles, Humorist James Thurber gives us another glimpse into the weird Thurberian world- that closed circle within which the male animal plods foolishly round & round, hopefully, "cutting down elm trees to put up institutions for people driven insane by the cutting down of elm trees." Thurber's colored maid Delia has figured out the mind of this foiled, circuitous wanderer. Thurber, she explains, "used to work in an office like anybody else, but he had to be sent to an institution; he got well enough to come home from the institution...
...Revolution, which was having its first showing. Gallerygoers, who clustered around this movable mural, saw Artist Chagall's mystical interpretation of what is going on in the world. Out of its upper right hand corner shaggy-haired Chagall gazed poker-faced at the weird doings below...
Ellen Drew and Jane Wyman--the brunette and the blonde respectively--Robert Armstrong, and a weird character called Ish Kabibble are along, apparently, for the ride, and don't seem to enjoy...
...science of remaining in business in the swift-changing war economy has produced many a weird result: gasless gasoline stations selling hardware, hammerless and nailless hardware merchants vending dry goods, autoless automobile dealers distributing food products. Latest business gallimaufry is a combination of steamship operations and egg dehydration...
Janie (by Josephine Bentham & Herschel Williams; produced by Brock Pemberton) tells of a new Junior Miss up to new junior mischief. It tells it in terms of the present, when small towns lie chockablock with army camps, and harum-scarum, boy-crazy young things, talking weird slang in whiny voices, give high-school seniors the go-by and dashing privates the come-on. One night, while her parents are out, Janie (Gwen Anderson) throws a small party for the military, which by midnight achieves riotous and regimental proportions. Coca-Cola gives way to Scotch, soldiers get locked in bathrooms, jeeps...