Word: humor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Humor...
...College Humor, monthly magazine] take particular exception to the attack made on the promotion book we published this year called "An Approach to the College Market." It has helped and is helping to bring advertisers into the college publications as well as our own. . . . Nowhere in the book-will you find COLLEGE HUMOR'S advertising rates published. Therefore when it is stated by anyone, as you have in your column, that by "tacit inference an advertiser can cover substantially the same field for a less amount," it becomes apparent that someone is trying to start something. . . . Relative...
...December issue of College Humor there appeared an article on Harvard of today written by a gentleman known as Gilbert Seldes. In his literary attempt he endeavors to portray for the world a picture of Harvard and its students. With an all-inclusive view and swayed by destructive tendencies he sketches the degenerated conditions prevalent in our institution, and deplores in rather forceful language those who dwell within its walls. Woe unto Harvard...
...duel at anagrams or ask-me-another the betting would be in favor of Swope, who takes a fierce joy in games of omniscience. But Renaud might confidently give Swope a half-column handicap in a contest of humor. He edited the college humorous magazine, Chapparal, in his undergraduate days and is reputed no small wit. During an absence of Don Marquis from the Evening Post, Ralph Renaud conducted his funny column and made it just as funny. The most famed Renaud epigram: "It's not the heat, it's ihe stupidity...
...Norman Anthony had been with Judge. He was not educated primarily to be a humorist. On the contrary he went to art school in his native Buffalo and later in New York, and learned to paint compositions of fish and bananas in new and thoughtful poses. His sense of humor could not be stifled, and in 1910, when he was 21 and very free, he eloped with a Buffalo girl. This prank turned out well. Mr. & Mrs. Anthony had two children and Mr. Anthony became a comedian in earnest. After ten years of free-lancing with cartoons and covers...