Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jane opens with a prolog in London's Cheshire Cheese tavern. Time: the night of Dec. 16, 1775. There sits grumbling Dr. Johnson, eating dirtily with James Boswell, Joshua Reynolds and David Garrick. The talk is not of the Yankee rebellion but of women?how silly, superficial, lacking in humor and the ability for "true creation'' they are. Just to show up the testy lexicographer. Playwright Hinkley implies, Divine Providence was at that moment bringing Jane Austen into the world. She appears in person on the stage at the age of 23. No one in the audience would realize...
...brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose.* One of their most vivid childish recollections is the old copper tycoon's glittering gold teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams of a Harvard freshman. During the War he served with distinction as an aviator in France, Macedonia. Morocco, where he had time to paint a number of most effective landscapes. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor...
...temporary crisis which confronts the most venerable college comic in the country may deprive Harvard of one of her oldest institutions. Despite occasional lapses into adolescent bad taste, the Lampoon, in face of falling subscriptions and hostile trends "has endeavored to maintain a high standard of clean wholesome humor...
...hope of increasing the circulation; the Board entered combinations with other publications and constituted itself a subscription agent; tailoring contracts were sold for a tenant; a new Cafe was opened. Finally, readers had begun to observe a radical improvement in the tone and quality of the Lampoon's humor...
...saving grace and surpassing virtue of the Transcript is its exquisite sense of humor. The London Times, an historian remarks, publishes documented correspondence on bugs, while the Boston Evening Transcript, as thoughtful and serious-minded as the Times, devotes a page to genealogy. When the Vagabond remembers this he is sure that the poet was too harsh and not at all penetrating when he wrote...