Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Very merrily the Spanish Royal Family watched a comic cinema, last week, in the Palado Real at Madrid, a few hours before Death came. Their good humor was increased by the prospective arrival, on the morrow, of King Christian and Queen Alexandrine of Denmark. There would be fetes, galas and good cheer-for Danes are the wittiest and most light-hearted of Scandinavians. The eyes of the Spanish Infantas would sparkle as they trotted to jazz strains in the arms of blond courtiers from Copenhagen. And as the counterpoise, the pivot of all this gayety, there would be the Queen...
...introductory note Hardy shies at critics who unanimously pronounce him "gloomy and pessimistic." But the generality is at least excusable, such is the lugubriousness of his humor: item, "The Three Tall Men" of the present volume. In his spare moments a man is making a coffin that shall be long enough for him to be neither bent nor snapped. He finishes a first coffin?it is needed for his tall brother; he finishes a second-for his tall son. He starts a third. Then?...
...Harvard sense of humor is often tinged with sadness. Last week, Harvard men smiled melancholic smiles as they viewed a new issue of the Lampoon, Harvard's funnypaper. The Lampoon had "done it again...
...clever, denial of his interpretation of student life at Cambridge. This, we imagine, is just what Mr. Roberts wanted. It would even seem to strengthen a few of the points at which he has been at such pains to whale away with his heavy bludgeon of journalistic humor...
Underline the type of book you read for pleasure most frequently: humor, science, detective stories, novels, poetry, philosophy, biography...