Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there have been books written as late as 1925 which have had some humor tucked beneath their sheets. "The Polyglots" had a whole lot--not the Lardner-Witwer-Sherwood-Benchley type, nor even the gentle-professorial-high-and-mighty type--but some real humor. And now someone asks, "What is real humor?" I suppose the best answer, aside from Dr. Cadman's who is now making Brooklyn the Delphi of America--the best answer is silence, since this is not a question and answer column nor is it inspired by the deft delightfulness of syndication. But I have lost...
...hour later the shape returned to the field, gliding softly down through the twinkling myriads of snow. The creature's masters left their perches beneath her helium-filled belly. They reported that their charge, the RS-1, sole semirigid* dirigible in the U. S. and largest in the world, had conducted herself most gracefully on her frost-christened maiden flight. Aloft there had been an elevenmile wind, through which she had glided at 40 m. p. h. in steady circles over her abode...
...need not fear to walk with Dickens, even in a room in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. In fact Dickens might rather like to talk with her, might find her rather charming--far more so than the literary occupant of the brass bed found her book. Butterfly amours on damasque lawns beneath fragile moons, center stage, are likely to pall at times, especially when there are David Copperfields to visit with as the London Mail swings down the Dover Road...
...blue Mediterranean and the bluer Adriatic seemingly lapped idly along the sunny shores of lower Italy. Beneath mystical cypresses and spreading palms, fountains splashed with silver sound, and the scent of many flowers lay upon the air. Sleek and graceful bodies gleamed through the foliage, all at rest yet all poised in the fleetness of arrested motion. It was a spot and a sight created for the pleasure of a multitude, and a multitude, the automobile-loving public of Manhattan and thereabouts, prepared...
...curious to see how this condition of affairs has paralyzed the efforts of all political groups which could lay claim to the badge of "liberal". That heterogeneous combination of farmers, union laborers, intellectuals, sputtering communists, and Republican malcontents, which was ranged beneath the banner of the late Senator LaFollette, a year ago, has disintegrated into its various components, though echoes of its pseudo-Marxian principles are still heard in agricultural problems. The Democratic party, its morale shattered by internal feuds, has almost succumbed to the general apathy, as it half-heartedly pursues an economic policy drawn along traditional laisser-faire...