Word: humorically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pretense to seriousness. Mr. Dix, as Yale quarterback Bill Dexter, runs riot in the Bowl, then in the exclusive (sic) Prado Night Club, gets jailed, escapes, and elopes to avoid capture. That in brief is the plot, but it is the small bits of acting and the rather subtle humor that makes this movie worthwhile and really entertaining...
During the trip Carol neglected to shave before the ingenious folding washstand provided in the individual compartments of all wagons-lits. The correspondents, thoroughly out of humor by morning, reported that "this Hohenzollern scion had obviously not even washed." They further added to his troubles by wiring ahead for whole platoons of cameramen. At Paris the last wheeze of the air-brakes was drowned amid the boom of flashlight powders...
...tears, but they are happy troubles, like roller-skating home from naughty men in wicked cabarets; and smiling tears like Irish tears should be. George K. Arthur as the effeminate modiste-shop proprietor provokes many of these, as well as a giggle or two, and besides adds considerable humor of his own to this playfully diverting comedy
...issue of the Harvard Lampoon, the prolific forebear of all the other college comics and of "Life." From this tiny prank of several Harvard Seniors in the year 1876 have sprung at least two mighty magazines, a hundred college comics, and a profitable industry engaged in the democratization of humor originating on college greens and in smoky offices of college comics. Certainly Lampy did not anticipate such an outcome of its modest first issue, admittedly the only one planned at the time. But the good idea grew, and there are now few colleges which have not their own college humorous...
...other college comics had kept closer to their model, they would not be in moderate disrepute today. While the Lampy serves a purpose, a serious one beyond its superficial humor, others have become no more than depositories for what may well be termed flapper humor. Their prototype is unfortunately "Hot Dog" rather than Lampy. --Cornell Daily...