Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some repetition, and, perhaps, at times some tedium for the reader. Of course an excursion into the advertising pages of the model offers the jaded Lampoon contributor one more field for jesting, but at last he must fall tamely back to invent a new contrivance or a new "helpful hint," which, however painstaking in its working up, suffers from close association with too many of its kind. Such are the penalties of "special numbers" except where the subject lends itself more easily to varied treatment. That the number, in spite of its handicaps, proves so entertaining, testifies highly...
...dialogue is simple and very natural; Mr. Furness has refrained from letting Shakespere too often quote from his own works. Altogether the play is delightful and charming in spirit. And in the speech, "My lines were meant to be sounded forth upon the stage!" there is a timely hint for critics...
...knows punctuation but he can never have heard of good manners or of common decency, although he is careful to put an exclamation point alongside every sentence in which there is any hint that human beings are not ordinarily produced by parthogenesis...