Word: humored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories, frequenting dives and brothels, being obscurely restless and messing up their young lives generally. One logy character plays football, stays respectable, is a college success. Another (the author) achieves a half-baked perception of his contemporaries as Wild Asses and Blunderbrats, laboriously adduces the law of compensation to flappers...
...author. It has only recently been printed, however, and will be placed on sale today. Members of Lincoln's Inn, when questioned about it last night declared, "The parody is priceless, if you are in the Law School. If not, it depends on the excellence of your sense of humor...
...between Town and Gown. There is also the hypothesis that the vicious driver, instead of being a psychopathic case, is a convert to Fundamentalism trying like a Mussulman to roar up to Heaven with the life of a Modernist for registration, license, and gate pass. Whatever the explanation, the humor of the situation is rapidly passing beyond that stage characterized by Dean Swift as "A college joke to help the dumps...
Among the monthly periodicals, over 300 Cosmopolitans are sold of each is site. The Red Book's sales figures hovers near the 225 mark. But the humor magazines are close contestants in the race for first place. Life enjoys tremendous vogue; Vanity Fair is nearly as sought after; and Judge and even the English Punch beat the Century in a popularity race...
...above all Harvard men seem to be judges of beauty. Though they devour College Humor, and know Captain Billy by heart, with the magazines of pictures their interest is keenest. At one store, at lest, the American Art Student and Art and life sell as fast as the Saturday Evening Post...