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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain point, Author Cozzens unfalteringly directs a tale that might turn comic if he did not keep it rigid with suspense. What that point is the heavily-breathing reader will find out for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crusoe Nightmare | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...octet which will sing vocal choruses for the Gold Coast Orchestra is the largest of the special singing units. There are also two quartets, one of which will sing "Gay Nineties" medleys, and the other close harmony pieces. One soloist, Henry B. Robbins '36, will render comic songs, accompanying himself on the guitar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS STRESS SPECIALITY ACTS | 11/23/1934 | See Source »

...which has existed since 1926, the Lampoon and the Princeton Tiger announced yesterday that they will publish a joint issue Saturday before the football game. To the 6000 subscribers of the two magazines will go 64 pages of humor, a record which has not been equalled by any similar comic publication for the last six years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON AND TIGER TO COMBINE IN NEXT ISSUE | 11/1/1934 | See Source »

...first, best-known novel, Futility, was a take-off (some phrased it: a comic appreciation) of his idol, Anton Chekhov. Resurrection pays its suspiciously grave respects to another of his heroes, Marcel Proust. Unwary readers might well be taken in by Author Gerhardi's occasionally indubitable solemnity, might almost believe that the psychic experience he writes of is meant to be taken at its face value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: True Experience | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...connection with the Harvard Glee Club whatsoever and formed merely for the pleasure of those engaged, the organization is practicing once a week in preparation for the celebration of President Lowell's birthday and for House concerts, at which it will furnish music in addition to the feature. Comic Elizabethan madrigals have been chosen to form the main part of the programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Vocalists Form Club To Render Comic Madrigals | 10/23/1934 | See Source »

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