Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...inexperience," that it was hastily withdrawn. A later suggestion was that MacDonald himself should take the post, taking the title of Lord MacDonald of Lossiemouth and handing his Prime Ministry over to jovial Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson. This was too much for even the MacDonald sense of humor. Other names flew thick and fast for weeks, until last week Lord Willingdon was appointed...
...spoke in English. Time and again his understanding Swedish audience rocked with laughter, found plenty of wit & humor in what the prizeman said...
...Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sinclair Lewis for his powerful and vivid art of description and his ability to use wit and humor in the creation of original characters...
...word, the "forced laborers" are former kulaks (rich farmers) dispossessed of their land by the Soviet program of "collectivizing farms." With grim humor, Mr. Knickerbocker was told that in Russia rich farmers had never worked before, would not work except under some compulsion, are now being "taught to work...
...glass about, poured mineral water on a lady's arm, dropped forks under the table and crawled after them with a flashlight, asking guests to move over, please. At last Ambassador Dawes arose, explained, introducing Errol, but some guests, unused to U. S. and New South Wales humor, failed to laugh. Offstage he looks unprepossessing. In his act he still wears the pair of Congress gaiters which he used in his first U. S. appearance...