Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon, the imperfection in form is notable, especially in the verse. Slovenly verse is not funny though it may be ridiculous. Humorous verse requires the greatest perfection of form. A skillful rhymester uses his rhymes to point his wit and obtains additional effects by surprising rhymes. Everyone is familiar with the lamentable effect of even a good joke haltingly and redundantly told by a dullard who remembers it imperfectly and repeats it clumsily. Concise expression, accuracy, and fluency are essentials of wit in verse and even more in prose. Good humorous verse is not easy to write...
...seems to be an "Old Home Week" at Keith's, and all the folks are out to greet the old-timer. Many are the familiar names on the bill; Lew Dockstader, who brings himself up to date by a mechanical stratagem; the Courtney Sisters, radically different from each other in voice and appearance; John Steel, "the celebrated American tenor"; and Harry Breen, of whose act the public never tires. On the other hand, a distinctly ultra-modern tendency in dancing and dress is displayed by Mr. Bryan and Miss Braderick in "Bill Board Steps". A clever "rehearsal", with humour ranging...
...burr, does a good telephone conversation. Joe Boganny and troupe prove the acme of slap-stick tumbling (yes, the dwarfs are there). William Horlick and Sarampa Sisters hold the crowd in at the last with a pleasing dance symphony, starring their own drop, a pair of crotales, and certain familiar Liszt music. Ben Linn, a sure-fire artist, Shubert Weekly News and Intermission complete a varied bill...
Those who are familiar with the mass meeting neither can nor need be urged to attend the one at Faneuil Hall on Wednesday. They know from experience either that for them it is worth going to or it is not. But those who have sedulously avoided such gatherings, whether from principle, prejudice or laziness, and show no interest in the doings at Faneuil Hall lay themselves open to the charge of being woofully self-centered and dead to the world...
Coach W. J. Bingham '16, speaking to the Freshman class in Smith Halls Common Room last night, characterized "Spirit" as consisting of four qualities: generosity, loyalty, determination and subordination. Drawing his illustrations mostly from the athletic field, because, as he said, he had been more familiar with that phase of college life during the past year, he illustrated these four constituents of "Spirit". Above all things he urged the necessity of getting out and doing something during the years at College, of having some interests, of being loyal to some cause...