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Word: humorically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage show is more elaborate and more gaudy than ever. It is somewhat too long, but under the able leadership of Ted Claire, presents some very good features. The best is an aerobatic act which contains amasing feats of agility and the right kind of accompanying humor...

Author: By A. H. H. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...repeated itself. Pleased, the President several times repeated his little prank. Eventually the Secret Service detail discovered the source of the false alarms, put in another bell in a spot unknown to the President. When this story became public, persons who question the existence of a presidential sense of humor flouted its accuracy. Yet Richard Jervis, head of the Executive Secret Service detail, vouched solemnly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...COLLEGE HUMOR Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...American of Frenchmen" kept as mum about his plans, last week, as did a typical U. S. tycoon. (See INTERNATIONAL.) Interviewed, he admitted only that during the holidays he had kept up his golf.? To questions about "The Program of Realization" he curtly and characteristically replied, without attempting humor or evasion, "Rien, maintenant, messieurs!" (Nothing to say, at present, gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Dauphin into Premier? | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...apostle of scarlet magnitudes, is not so famed as a John Singer Sargent or a Joseph Pennell. But more millions of magazine readers have seen his work than most painters can boast. He "does" the advertisements for Fisher Bodies, Humming Bird Hosiery, Texaco Gas; cover designs for Life, College Humor, Pictorial Review, Country Gentleman. For the shapely, aristocratic, painted heroines of Fisher Body (TIME, Dec. 24, et ante} Artist Barclay receives $1200 each. *1st George Jay (died 1923), 2nd Edwin, 3rd Helen (now Mrs. Finlay J. Shepard, mother of four adopted children), 4th Howard, 6th Anna (Countess Boni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Red Bridge | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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