Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since we have had ever-sharp poneils of red barn paint, our co-eds need only rompers and a sense of humor (nearly impossible for a co-ed) to clown. The Clara Bow month on our buxom cornfed lassies is just another Cumberland gap in disguise, and the termination of Grate Garbo lip in a dimple is the ending of an opera in "Pop Goes the Weasel." But most mouths are nothing more than Halloween scares--impossibilities after the age of 12 years...
...Upstairs Common Room of the Union at 7.45 o'clock, Thursday evening, February 11. Professor Tozzer and Delmar Leighton '19, dean of the Freshman Class, will be guests that night at dinner in the Union. The first faculty speaker was Professor K. B. Murdock '16, who spoke on "American Humor...
...look at Author Ford Madox Ford you might think he was one of those adenoidal Englishmen on whose mentality the sun never rises. After reading him you would have to admit yourself mistaken. Though not always graceful he is an agile writer, an anecdotalist of parts and humor, of quite un-British charm. Return to Yesterday is not just another old codger's autobiography. To read it is like being monologued by an expert. Author Ford, though gossipy, is also old-fashioned in his reticences, apologizes for not being even more so. "I have tried to keep myself...
...first of a series of Faculty addresses to the members of the Class of 1935, sponsored by the Freshman Union Committee. Professor Murdock's talk, which will be preceded by the second of a series of piano recitals planned by the Union Committee, is to be on "American Humor." Professor Murdock and Delmar Leighton '19, dean of the first year class, will be guests of the Freshmen at dinner...
...Harbourmaster is a ripe book; no young man could have written it. It is full of humor, tolerance and a kind of cool dogmatism that you may more than once find irritating in the course of its 439 leisurely pages. Narrator Spenlove-McFee tells his tortuous tale in his own way and cannot be hurried. While the passengers of S. S. Camotan, on a Caribbean pleasure-cruise, fretted at not being allowed to go ashore at Puerto Balboa because a revolution had just broken out there, Chief Engineer Spenlove entertained some of them with a tale. The day before. Puerto...