Word: humorically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred fifty four Harvard students cast ballots in College Humor's first college straw vote, the balloting being divided, Hoover 99, Smith 55, according to a statement from that magazine released yesterday...
TIME, never professionally humorous, regrets the semblance of humor which marred its factual report of what occurred when Jewish worshippers were dragged (some by the beard) from the Wailing Wall by brutal Arab police. The report chiefly concerned physical violence. It concerned only incidentally a religious custom which, on other occasions, TIME has described to the satisfaction of many a devout...
Three Comrades and 1 Invention is the first sample of Russian humor ever presented in the U. S. in cinema. The three comrades, one big, one little male and one, Olga Tretlakova, lusty and white-toothed female with no waistline, used an invention for making boxes as the mechanism for laughing at inventions, manufacturers, the Soviet government, country life. And U. S. audiences laughed at humor in the style of Gogol as heartily as in the past they have laughed at humor in the style of Sennett...
...bogs,'' then migrated to Ohio there to continue his ditching, peddling, champion drinking, yarn-swapping. Whether he was better off in Ohio, who can say-his son's possessions were "a wife, six children, two cows, one hog, a blind mare, and a sense of sad humor"; his grandson's a keen Irish sense of pathos, a true Irish gift...
CHARLES DICKENS, A Biography From New Sources-Ralph Straus-Cosmopolitan ($4). Dickens the showman sketched with humor and sympathy...