Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Storms are first forecast by those who fear them most. Storms in human affairs are often precipitated by sheer nervousness...
Miss Calkins reflects a keen curiosity in human reactions. "Queens weep like simple women"-but why, what have queens to weep?. Yet she knows
Jean A. Lussier was the third human being to remain alive after accomplishing this courageous and stupid feat. First was Annie Upson Taylor in an oak barrel in 1901. Second was Bobbie Leach in a steel barrel in 1911. Sixteen years ago Jean Lussier had worked in the machine shop where Leach's barrel had been made. That was where he had received his inspiration...
...ROYAL FAMILY?Hilarious and human exaggeration of home life among the stage stars (TIME...
...master of ceremonies, Mr. Interlocutor. For "he is the father of all the foils in vaudeville, those well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable manners, who speak such painfully correct English and are such easy prey for the low buffoonery of their companions ... it is one of the laws of human drama that this should be so. ... The crowd likes nothing better than to see a half-wit get the better of a pompous intellectual. It restores confidence as it were." When he is in a tight fix, Mr. Interlocutor blandly and sonorously announces a rendition by our silver-voiced tenor...