Word: comic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinary about the recital guitar. It had just six strings. Andres Segovia, the Spaniard who brought it to the U. S., had just the allotted ten fingers but he made big music. Long black hair, a sack coat, flowing black tie and shell bound spectacles-he was like a comic in a cinema until he sat down, cuddled his instrument under a great black arm and began to play. Then did the skeptics in the audience forget altogether the guitar of the barbershop ballads. Sor, Malats, Tarrega, Torroba, Grandaos, Albeniz and even a suite of the great Johann Sebastian Bach...
...Charles Chaplin when he finds that the wire is broken which was to have preserved his equilibrium on the high, dangerous tightrope; and when, to add to this horrible predicament, three vicious monkeys run after him and tear his clothes off. These are not, moreover, the only truly comic moments in The Circus. Scarcely any period of 30 seconds passes without supplying new and highly legitimate grounds for laughter...
...Will Rogers its choice for the next president. Favorite son of Oklahoma, mayor of Claremont, California, the humorist has been so long an important critic of politics that his qualifications as a practitioner are worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings, or even Abraham Lincoln, people are saying. And his wit is surpassed only...
...possibilities are as endless as the pains which should accompany the choice. Most obvious are the names of historic characters, titles of books, or the heroes of one's favorite comic strip. Better are literary allusions or foreign quotations. But really the best are those that pun gently, or carry hidden some delicate and awful meaning. Choice examples of this from other years are "Titus A. Drum" for example, or "Lewd Fellows of a Basser Sort", "Twelve Knights in a Bathroom", or "Virginibus Puerisque...
Peculiarly enough the tiny volumes issued each year by England's comic magazine and examples of which from 1844 to 1880 are now on view, seem to concern themselves to a marked degree in their colored engravings with topics of equal or greater moment today than at their time of issue. Thus those of 1852 and 1860 are titled "Progress of Bloomerism or a Complete Change" and "Swimming for Ladies." The figures depicted by the engraver John Leech show that though the costumes of this day would today be conspicuous for their superfluity, at that time they represented what...