Word: humored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ZANDER THE GREAT-Humor and shootin', sisterly love and the other kind on a bootleggers' ranch in Arizona. Alice Brady makes the most of her first adequate rôle in legitimate drama...
...editors of the famous Manchester Guardian, here turns his hand to fiction. He shows a vivid and versatile talent in writing two Irish sketches, three stories of the war, a newspaper tale, a literary burlesque, a story of mountain climbing and a shuddery horror tale. Mr. Montague shows humor, irony, sympathy. He understands the soldier as well as Kipling, though his sympathies do not run to war. He is never impersonal: he intrudes in the story with ironic or humorous remarks. The book is not so important as Disenchantment, but it introduces an entirely different short story teller...
Miniatures of Young Love and Old, Done in Quiet Humor The Story. For his latest volume Mr. Tarkington has collected thirteen stories in his lighter vein. For the setting of these amusing tales he selects a large middle western city (presumably Indianapolis), or one of the growing middle western towns...
...Significance. Mr. Tarkington is important as an interpreter of the humorous side of the Middle West, and a writer of amusing stories in which children are delightfully pictured. Mr. Tarkington shows the sunny leisure and the small daily happenings of a growing town. None of these stories rises to greatness, or pretends to do so. Some are mere sketches, some full-length, none are wholly serious. All abound in laughing observation of the antics of children and young lovers, all are excellent in the reproduction of Negro dialect and children's prattle. None is profound or disturbing, keeping...
Irvin S. Cobb, who places his high-priced humor at the disposal of the suitings business...