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Concerning the instinctive basis for laughter, Dr. Bolton said: "Laughter is a form of expression denoting the culmination of some conquest or struggle . . . also the expression of a vicarious triumph. ... It is a phenomenon of triumph. . . . What we generally call laughter is the expression of a coarse emotion which, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laughter | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

If, as he avers, seven years of honest toil and study were required before he mastered the art of swinging the drum major's baton then Mr. Olson is justified in demanding eight for the greater complexities of the saxaphone and the other apparatus which compose modern music. But just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACHELOR OF JAZZ | 5/25/1927 | See Source »

Homo is the sailor home from the sea, and with him he has brought decided opinions concerning education, coeducation and floating colleges. Prematurely back in the United States, some weeks before the Ryndam which is bearing four hundred young men and sixty young women on a world cruise dedicated to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPERIENCE THE BITTER TEACHER | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

Dressed in a Scotch outfit, "real Scotch", avers the musician, he will give a performance on his piccolo surpassing the wildest dreams of his audience. Those who do not believe the accepted story of the death of Lampy's tree, are inclined to accept Bob's words that "it just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bob Lampoon Will Make Debut on Stage of University Theatre--To Play Piccolo in Scotch Garb | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

Italians Great, He Avers

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JESTER'S JANITOR IS G. B. S. OF GRAND ST. | 2/4/1927 | See Source »

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