Word: humor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lounging, lionesslike vitality, her insatiable lust for life and her contempt for all forms of humbug have inspired a large body of legend. Her egomania is about as extreme as "the artistic temperament" can produce. She is exhibitionistic, extravagant, self-indulgent, unpredictable-and full of whims, radiant good humor and terrible rages. She is all these things in a very fulltime, wholehearted...
...superstition is only one phase of the nature which keeps his precision plus a 13-hour work day from turning him into an automaton. His sense of humor also helps. When a fan asked him after the Princeton game if Harvard had lost because it had not spent enough time on defense, he answered, "What do you mean? We spent all Saturday afternoon on defense...
...entertainment program will also include a play with a Yule-time theme and strolling carolers. Traditionally the play is chosen from the ranks of recognized pieces, and thus has ranged in approach from humor to tragedy. Last year the middle English nativity play, "The Second Shepherds Play," was presented...
Even allowing for opening-night delays, however, the play seemed over-long. The episode involving a trumpeter in the first part of Act One added little to the humor and nothing to the play. Following on a witty prologue, it bogged down the proceedings and was not aided by the actors concerned. Omitting it entirely would be a great improvement...
While at Radcliffe Miss Slocumbe wrote for the sub-deb department of the Ladies Home Journal and briefly for the Radclice News. As she explained, "A small bit of humor was my last journalistic effort...