Word: humor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attached, received a few days ago, is, to me, a good example of what has come to be known as the British sense of humor...
...Lieut. General Achille Starace, Secretary of the Fascist Party, who for eight years has stood close enough behind Benito Mussolini to tickle his shoulder blades with a stiletto. With sense of humor zero and self-confidence unlimited, Fascist Starace earned the nickname "Pantherman" by feats of physique-jumping a horse over a car, pole vaulting, diving over parallel bars, plunging through rings of fire. In his gaudy office, where he is protected by an always-loaded, pearl-handled revolver and by a solid gold Virgin, he has thought up many a mystic fetish, many a fiendish thuggery. He abolished...
...education, said Authors Gruenberg & Kaukonen, is that its teachers (preferably married) should have a balanced outlook on life, be optimistic, poised, sympathetic to young people's problems, of upright character. A teacher must also be able to see that sex is sometimes funny, must be able to use humor without vulgarity, must never le his pupils get the impression that they have heard more dirty jokes than...
...small wall of the Germanic Museum. Never before has the element of vengeance entered the realm of art and music, but in a series of pen sketches by Oberlaender, entitled "Piano's Revenge," a new vista of conjecture is opened for those who appreciate the rare combination of real humor and fine craftsmanship...
...opinion, as well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate of Sword-in-the-Stone partisans, to assure its author definite standing among such cult men as A. P. Herbert, P. G. Wodehouse, Lewis Carroll...