Word: humor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sketch entitled "Hour Exams", H. C. Greene tells the story of two roommates' rivalry with gentle humor--almost too gentle at times. "Trusts--A Point of View" is a comic bit of narrative by H. S. Ross, whose feeling for detail is almost Wordsworthian. Jabez Bronson is undoubtedly the best thing in the number. "Applied Economics" is another story in which a discourse on trusts sends its auditor to sleep. It is rather a descriptive sketch than a narrative; and it is not without its good points. An unsigned allegory, called Viae Vitae", might be called a poem...
...newspaper recently published three pictures: Yale's Skull and Bones, the Princeton Ivy Club House, and the Harvard Union, under the general heading of influential college societies. To Harvard men the picture of the Union grouped by the side of the Bones house may have generated a strain of humor totally unintended by the energetic New York editor. But, truly, what picture should represent Harvard as its "most influential club?" The fact is there is no such thing here...
...Mitigating Circumstance" concerns a freakish motor-boat which gives its owner two unhappy hours and affords the reader an excuse for a few smiles. Perhaps if the humor were not so self-conscious the reader might laugh outright occasionally...
...into apartments which are in temporary use by a young lord, and are discovered there by two of his men friends, while they are paying him a visit. The complications that ensue are deftly handled with consummate skill, and the result is a delicate little comedy bubbling over with humor of delicious spontaneity...
...audience, Boston has taken more than a passing fancy to both comedian and production. Unlike too many of the musical comedies which are offered through successive seasons, "He Came From Milwaukee" still possesses a remarkable air of freshness and snap. That this is due rather to the contagious good humor of Mr. Bernard himself than to the accomplishments of his supporting company or a not too bright book and score is a compliment to his ability all the more sincere. In the present case, Mr. Bernard is the particular light and very justly...