Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usually fatal. It was he who analyzed the farm bloc as "several lawyers, a few editors and one well-digger." His wit is not of the Harrison sledgehammer type. He plays the fish, and then he neatly spears it, while the audience roars. It was his sardonic humor which put the prophecy into the mouths of observers that he would never rise higher than Senator...
Miss Clark's servant girl, Nancy, was portrayed in spirited manner with full appreciation for the humor of the part. For some reason Bernard Nedell as John Pendleton assumed an expression suggesting tolerant amusement which he used throughout the evening regardless of the situation...
...Broadway producer with an eye for color, a feeling for the genre, and a playful sense of humor 4 grant that there is none such might bring out an American Chauve-Souris which could tour Europe with notable success; but nobody would listen to it, though their eyes might burst in wonder, for only in Russia could he find such voices as those that enchant or dominate the air of Balieff's Bat. From the piercing shriek of Katinka, through the lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness...
...synopsis can give but an inadequate Deak of this work of art, light, brilliant, always full of interest, delicately molded, replete with homeliness and the sincere religious feeling of the time. The dialogue is sparkling, admirably shaded, always true to life and full of verve and good humor. For a troupe of young Americans to interpret a play so preeminently French must certainly have presented countless difficulties. Moreover, the actors all deserve great credit for their performance last Saturday night. In the ensemble, they were eminently successful. The general movement of the performance was perhaps a little slow, an impression...
...times recently you have published curious letters over my signature which have given me more publicity than amusement. The first, in its obvious connection with the Business School number of the Lampoon, seemed to be apropros and somewhat funny. I can take a joke. But this last, lacking both humor and originality, being neither relevant nor in good taste, is so banal as to be scarcely credible. Really the CRIMSON sleuths should expose these scurrilous scribes. I feel sure that they are the same individuals who steal the books from Widener...