Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure of blindfolded Justice saying "Oh. my!" in an attitude of dancing, a large stein of beer labeled "Oh, boy!." and the legend. "Don't you know you're being ridiculed?" Mrs. Warren's library includes a set of "The World's Wit & Humor...
...Lifetime" will be interested to compare it with the stage version. They will probably agree with the Playgoer that the additions which the camera makes too often seem like a stupid man's laborious explanation of the point of a joke. They will also find that the humor, though still present, has been effectively softened. Hollywood is willing to laugh at itself--but not too loudly...
...still pains finical Denverites in dark, slick Frederick Bonfils' incredibly blatant Denver Post. Publisher Bonfils, onetime river gambler, in whose veins runs Latin blood (some say a Bonaparte strain from Corsica), still personifies Denver's oldtime dash and bravado. His late partner, H. H. Tammen, onetime bartender, personified its humor. To him is credited the inscription over the Post's door, "O Justice! When Expelled from All Other Habitations Make This Thy Dwelling Place." The Post has said of Denver "Everything that comes out of the ground is just a little bit sweeter and a little bit better than that...
...first sale to the films was Dubose Heyward's Porgy, which was never produced. As a literary agent she cultivated the business of "meeting people" as a fine art, never allowed her small self to be overawed by famed authors. It was her sales of stories to College Humor that led to her being hired there...
...outgrowth of the defunct Collegiate World, College Humor began in 1921 as a quarterly, the staff & equipment consisting chiefly of Publisher Lansinger, shears and pastepot. It was merely a scrapbook of cartoons and jokes from U. S. under graduate funny-books. In 1923 long, lean, curly-headed "Swanie" Swanson, fresh out of Grinnell College where he edited the Malteaser, got a job as Mr. Lansinger's secretary. He worked up to the editorship, was largely responsible for the editorial polish which College Humor later acquired as a monthly magazine of original fiction, articles, drawings, interspersed with clippings from the campus...