Word: humored
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Very Idea" for its mid-winter theatre party, but that's not saying it's an improper show. Vicarious parentage is ordinarily not an appropriate topic among the very best people, but William LeBaron, to whom this very idea was born, has spun three acts of good fun and humorous complication. Having resolved to poke fun at eugenics and its converts, he has only to introduce the child in the final act to hoist the humor to its climax. Which he does, and very deftly...
...head. Few of them make any impression at all. One exception to this is a song entitled "Oh My!" which Mr. Brian, aided by a male chorus which can actually sing, succeeds in getting across. There are no great beauties in staging, no splendid costuming. The humor, decidedly reminiscent, takes one back to good old antediluvian days and many of the lines which are presented to Mr. Frank Youlan, who upholds the comic muse, might well have been left out for all the mirth they provoked...
...recent editorial in your columns you wrote, "most of us are out of sorts chafing at enforced inactivity. . ." Altho I have no quarrel to pick with the main point of the article concerning the desirability of a sense of humor' I do think the above quotation raises a point deserving consideration. The words that I refer to in particular are 'enforced in activity...
...with the army, and in particular with its age limit of twenty years and nine months and in no way trying to conceal our misery, the few who still seem happy assume heroic proportions. We ask the secret of their cheer, and the invariable answer is their sense of humor. Just what is sense of humor? The dictionary tells us that it is "the ability to perceive the comic." But the lexicographer knew nothing of the subject. If he had, he probable wouldn't have been a lexicographer. True sense of humor goes as far beyond this definition as solid...
Some few excuse themselves on the ground that they were born without a sense of humor, and if this be so, they never will have one. But with most of us the case is different; the sense of humor is there, but underdeveloped or ignored. If we are wise, we shall give our senses of humor free play these days, and the chances are that neither government, nor the army, nor college life itself will rankle any more...