Word: humorically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forget themselves as to cheer him-and Bach. Some went to hear him for the first time-a man who, according to Critic Lawrence Gilman, has made All-Bach recitals as popular in the British Isles as cricket matches, a musician with a keen enough sense of humor to tell on himself of the moist night in South Africa when he slipped off his stool and under the piano. They saw him come out on the stage, a little man, one-third fore head and nearly two-thirds shirt front; saw him bow, start to play. A group of Preludes...
...were closely associated with him on the CRIMSON board learned not only to respect him, but to love him for his kindly humor and true friendship. Since then he kept in close touch with his classmates through his secretary-ship of the Class of 1904, and by virtue of his wide interest in all Harvard affairs. At every reunion he was our guide, philosopher, and friend...
...Scott Fitzgerald, whose first novel carried the name of Princeton before the public eye in a story which brought on a flood of imitators, has written a sketch of life at his alma mater for a current magazine, College Humor,--but the name has no bearing on his article. For it is not a humorous article, nor does it have that mixture of sharpness and sentiment which marked the time when "the tide of war rolled up the sands where Princeton played." He writes not now as a very recent graduate, but from the distance of over a decade...
Immoral Isabella? There is a salty ballad men sing when they are drunk in which Christopher Columbus pleads noisily for ships and cargo; for which he promises Isabella, queen of Spain, to bring her back Chicago. This play is written in the same spirit, but without the humor. The Queen and the mariner are represented as in love with one another, much to the regal irritation of Kind Ferdinand; costumed in his nightie. The queen is a teaser; one never knows whether her love was lewd or purely playful. The King sends Columbus off to discover America just too soon...
...simple, too, and need not weigh heavily on the gallery's mind. This one, as always, tells how the villain tried by treachery to keep the hero's horse from coming first. As an undistinguished fable of the race track, salted smartly with curious slang and nimble humor, the farce does well enough. Jum Bubbles, Negro, inserted as a tap dancer, stole the spectators' attention from the story...