Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard put to it to raise a respectable objection to this solemnly hilarious japery. Even those who do not like English novels because they consider the English an annoyingly asinine race will find Author Linklater's soothing. Like many a sourly smiling Scotsman, he considers the Sassenachs a comic spectacle, fit subject for a farce...
...more amusing song-offerings were Eve Arden's rippingly funny take-off on the American Legion, D. A. R. ladies, entitled "Send for the Militia," and Evelyn Dall's striking presentation of "Selling Sex." Avis Andrews' singing of "You Ain't So Hot," is very effective. Jimmy Save, the comic headliner, is well known for his pantomimic nonsense, which he presented with highly successful effect, running the gamut from starving wayfarer to bloated capitalist...
With rare exceptions all the current red scares in the universities, which have been getting much undeserved publicity on the front pages of the country, have as much fact behind them as the present comic-opera skirmish at Williamstown. Rebuffed by a deplorable lack of hospitality on the part of the Williams student body, the embassy of good will from Boston's over-lighted watch-towers will make a hasty return to the genial city where its efforts to save America from looming chaos receive the appreciation they deserve...
...plain men every-where have long ago decided that its causes were not so simple nor its aims so noble as they were once given to believe. Author Millis, analyst of war psychology, who showed in The Martial Spirit that some wars could be reduced to the terms of comic opera, in Road to War reduces the greatest war yet fought to terms of fallible human nature...
Also, obediently, the Herald dropped the forbidden comic strips next day. But its Sunday color pages, already made up, included those features. "Cissy" Patterson asked Publisher Meyer's permission to publish them that one last time, sparing her the expense of a last-minute change. Hesitantly Mr. Meyer agreed on condition that the Herald print a front-page box acknowledging the Post's courtesy. "Cissy" Patterson asked time to consider. The deadline came & went, with no further word from "Cissy." Thereupon the Post published its own announcement that the Herald would appear next day with Sunday comics...