Word: humor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some $50,000 to this friend Professor Hilltop provided he can successfully meet a psychological test intended to prove the deceased professor right in the many warm discussions he and his friend have had on the particular subject. The farcical idea Miss Rice works out with much resource and humor...
...fifteen stellar athletes who clamor at our gates would be so supersensitive as to let a lone cartoon of his race influence his choice of college. If such there be, he is unworthy of the sod which has furnished a greater part of the world's wit and humor. We say this advisedly because by a strange coincidence the man who drew the picture and the president of the board are lineal descendants of St. Patrick themselves, and believe that the opinion voiced in yesterday's communication is not a criterion of the general sentiment of our race in College...
...author of this article, as he suggests, goes in search of humor with a hundred horse-power telescope and a couple of Stetson bloodhounds it is not surprising that he fails in the attempt. Still, such hunting is a quaint conceit...
...then again, was the drawing meant to express humor? Ah, there is a point to consider! If the author remembers Life's "The Glorious Fourth," which perhaps he never saw, he recalls the deep moral uplift of the picture...
...eight lectures under the auspices of the Lowell Institute of Boston on "Some Elements of Poetry as Illustrated by the Literature of the Romantic Movement in England" in Huntington Hall, 491 Boylston street, Boston, this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The special topic of today's lecture will be "Humor in Poetry...