Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there something about the atmosphere of the New Deal that dulls the intellect and blunts the sense of humor of those privileged to report the game from the sacred precincts of the chief players...
...wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate's bustle, and in a soft, artistic way, other pundits refined the dross from the Graduate's Magazine. The editors were not lacking in brilliance, but, are gratia artis, they eschewed such fundamental principles of journalism...
...since 1915. It seems that the student's father, prominent in middle western political affairs, had let drop to the state senator that his son was concentrating in Government at Harvard, and would perhaps be interested in legislative affairs. The senator, quite evidently a man with a sense of humor, took him at his word...
...Crime" she seems to have resurrected the restraint that characterized her early hits and the result is a satisfactory piece of acting. Adolphe Menjou is his usual dignified self, but in those wistful eyes of his seems to be a yearning for a lighter part, perhaps a chance at humor. An unusually fine "bit" is contributed by Noel Madison who gives a poignant nonchalance to his role of the convicted murderer that registered deeply in the audience...
...CRIMSON enjoys having fun, and the college does as a general rule, enjoy watching the CRIMSON enjoy having fun: It is such serious fun, so purposefully undertaken. But may I draw your attention to what I consider a slight exaggeration of this humor. In this morning's Crime column, which, many of us think, richly deserves its name, one of the campus figures, V. H. Kramer '35, was rather brutally treated. The fact that he was so treated because of his connection with the Model League, which somehow the CRIMSON in its aloof attitude was unable to stomach, does...