Word: humor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waistcoat and tilted back in the witness chair with his cigar at a happy angle. The front feet of the chair turned to earth when the questioning began, but the smile remained and the cigar rolled easily about between answers which were not without a certain eager humor. The questions paralleled those asked of Candidate Hoover, though they were put less pressingly, in less finicky detail...
...long contemplated the absurdities of man and man-made gods. The fruit of his three score years of contemplation is a brilliant exposure of those gods, pointing to the irony of the fear they are able to rouse in man. His leisurely narrative is rich in satire and delicious humor, which may easily be misunderstood for meaningless, if somewhat lickerish, drool. But even the most matter-of-fact reader will envy the bright existence led by Douglas' creatures, and be charmed by his prose...
...miniature: speeches which let the eagle scream, parading delegates, contested votes, songs and flags and pictures of famous Democrats. If the convention follows the two models upon which it is based the regular Democratic. Convention and the mock convention held at Harvard four years ago there will be both humor and excitement in abundance...
Fine touches like this lift the rest of the company into proper importance. Peggy Wood Plays Portia with a humor--in the Elizabethan sense--that erases the memory of wooden Shakespearean heroines. And she is not Junoesque. Bassanio's suit was somehow less plausible for the youth of his friend Antonio; the lines of both were carefully read. Shock-headed and slant-eyed Rummey Brent gave nonchalance to Launcelot Gobbo, and little more can be done with...
With her contemporaries Life had fun in her own May 3 issue. Almost typographically perfect, she burlesqued the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, New Masses, Colliers, The Nation, True Story, Harpers Bazar, Judge, New Yorker, College Humor, American Mercury, Arts and Decoration, Poetry, McCalls, Scientific American, The Eclipse Lovers Weekly, Christian Herald, Lariat Story Magazine, TIME...