Word: comic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is an exhibition in the Memorial Room of the Widener Library this week of Punch's Pocket Books, Thomas a Becket Books of the Month. Kate Green way's Almanac and Cruikshank's Comic Almanac...
There will be an exhibition in the Memorial Room of the Widener Library this week of Punch's Pocket Books, Thomas a Becket's Books of the Mouth, Kate Greenway's Almanac and Cruikshank's Comic Almanac...
...What the Lampoon needs is a new set of editors, and especially a new staff poet. . . . The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more sprightly than oafish malice. . . . It is a platitude that clumsy humor is perhaps the most painful thing to behold this side of eternal damnation. You blush for the fellow who tries it, and feel that he has done something equivalent to appearing...
...probity of open-space fiction today is truly magnificent. Author Kyne clearly states that this book's supply of moonshine, necessary for comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...
...staff poet. It is doubtful whether light poetry has ever been published which was as bad as this. The metre is slew-footed, the ideas are ignobly feeble, the rhymes set your teeth on edge. The humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more springly than oafish malice. And the ineptitude of this doggerel has marked all the Lampoon's effort this year...