Word: comics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good-tempered wit are the most potent of controversial weapons, and in the hands of undergraduate editors who know how to handle them are likely to make more impression that the sonorous periods of the average "editorial." The college humorous paper that is content to remain merely a "comic," loses a golden opportunity. Yale Alumni Weekly
...first of a series of articles to be published in the Boston Herald each Sunday by different college comic publications, beginning next week, will be written by the Harvard Lampoon, it was announced yesterday by A. G. Cooke, '26, president of the Lampoon...
...Woman of the World. Pola Negri in a light comedy is unusual. The light comedy is only fairly comic, which is rather more usual. She plays a European temptress who pounces down upon a small Iowa town and quite disrupts the population, including the stalwart and belligerent sheriff...
...little girl, most mysteriously derived, is living at an English parsonage when the Crown Prince of Nicomedia dies. A general and a count come to claim her for the little comic opera kingdom as its heir presumptive, the daughter of the King's youngest son. For a girl in her early teens, Ernestine Sophie has admittedly a remarkable amount of poise, extraordinary insight and understanding. She likewise develops into an excellent shot with the revolver. So she goes to the intriguing little court and sets it upon its ear. The Princess finds two men who love her dearly, besides...
...comic interlude Balaam appears belaboring his ass, which balks at the shining angel in his path. The High Priest was also intended as a comic figure. In scorn and derision he listens to the prophecies, laughs raucously at Saint Augustine's chant, and harangues his Jewish followers. He contrasts grotesquely with the sober, dignified Augustus who calmly opposes his biblical arguments to the raging High Priest and his followers...