Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here's how the model man will be rated by the girls: Intelligence, 20 per cent.; cultural background, 15 per cent.; personal appearance, 15 per cent.; personality, 10 per cent.; courtesy, 10 per cent.; sense of humor, 10 per cent.; physical fitness, 5 per cent.; clear understanding of the word "no", 5 per cent.; social poise, 5 per cent.; dancing ability, 5 per cent. United Press Dispatch...
...heart, seldom uses exactly the same method twice. He is voracious. Life, and life as portrayed in the theatre, is a business that must be attacked on many fronts. The only thing that serious Mr. O'Neill can inevitably be counted on to avoid is a touch of humor. Like his fellow-Hibernian Synge, he loves "all that is salt in the mouth, all that is rough to the hand, all that heightens the emotions by contest, all that stings into life the sense of tragedy...
Then, too, other little things will pop up which may dim the lustre of Dartmouth a bit. The Yale Record, despite bursts of pubertie petulance, has much better art work than our Jacko, its humor has greater variety and the depth of sophistication which does not strive so passionately for whimsy and urbanity. And the Yale Nows, stuffed like a Strasbourg goose with advertising, puts the business board of The Dartmouth to honest shame...
...from scratch to a position that includes the ownership of several nightclubs, a gambling house, a Rolls-Royce and a limited but attractive choice of women. All his businesses are strictly legal with the exception of the gambling house. Harworth is a hard young man with no sense of humor, big ambitions; he is making good money but wants the best. Other Chicagoans have ambitions too, and Harworth soon finds that if he wants to continue making any money at all he will have to string along either with Gangster Molina or Gangster Monahan...
With this lack of humor and understanding, Eton and Harrow are endeavoring to lend a democratic flavor to what have always been gentlemen's schools. But far more to the point than these superficial concessions to practicality is Highgate's provision of new workshops, where boys can build usable machinery with their own hands and lie on their backs in overalls beneath Austins in the making. This is the sort of healthy handicraft that really balances intellectuality, as the Hill School hobby-shop in America has effectively shown. Equally commendable is the honest purpose of Kimmel Hall, a new school...