Word: comically
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...elegancies; he considers them ridiculous; and thus, although he is frequently assured by his own politicians that the Englishman is, in fact, a cold-blooded imperialist who spends his time in jumping on the underdog, he does not take these accusations very seriously. . . . To him we appear as slightly comic figures. I am aware that, psychologically speaking, the laughter that we arouse in the American breast is mainly due to their own pathetic self-consciousness and to a wholly misplaced sense of cultural inferiority; but I am not discussing complexes...
...developed a formula of its own, to which the nudity and wisecracks, the crooned syncopation and eager pace of last year's musicals would be an unthinkable violation. Paris in Spring handsomely exhibits all the proper appointments in the manner of the day: no gags, no chorus, no comic. Sprightliness is the keynote of the dialog. Songwriters Harry Revel and Mack Gordon, with a fetching title song and probably the year's best tango (Bonjour, Mam'selle), are continental in chunks, and Mary Ellis, though she frequently sings with abandon, keeps her well-proportioned body covered...
...fifth round on a foul, the sixth on points. With a rare flash of his old savage form he rocked Braddock with a right to the jaw in the seventh. Then in the eighth round Braddock sent a harmless blow to Baer's chin. And, again going comic, Baer electrified the crowd by staggering about in a circle, then straightening up with a great laugh and repulsing the hopeful challenger...
...social injustice when she performs wildly in the Cuban sugar cane. And shy little Jimmy Savo is most capable not when he is being beset by police, or starving in the street, or dying of appendicitis in a neglectful free clinic, but when he is up against his old comic difficulty of making a complicated and terrifying piece of machinery work. As the proprietor of a "puffle" works whose employes are on strike, Funnyman Savo becomes entangled in a ten-foot blue print, has first powder and then oil squirted into his surprised face, nearly electrocutes himself before the whole...
...Republican and Union were printed in typewriting (see cut). Only the conventional banner designs distinguished the two front pages, each set in four wide columns containing two dozen short items. Here and there the eight-page sheets were broken with real type of advertisements already set up, with comic strips or stereotyped features. Evening editions came out in the same form...