Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attractive editions are now the easiest to sell. This explains the present popularity of "N. by E." and "Moby Dick" which have been made so desirable by Rockwell Kent's fine illustrations. A survey of Cambridge bookstores also discloses the Harvard man's predilection for the sophisticated brand of humor displayed by Peter Arno in his "Hullabaloo" and the same thing by other artists in the "Third New Yorker Album." Those desiring more substantial reading are now concentrating on "Charles W. Eliot" by Henry James and on such bulky tomes as Priestley's "Angel Pavement" and Arnold Bennett's "Imperial...
...Everyone knows Christopher Robin. Soon a lot of people will know Simon. For in The Book of Simon Author Hutchinson tells you all there is to know about his son, from the age of 17 months to nearly three years. It is an affectionate account, not totally bereft of humor. "He crawls excitedly under the table for something and then, having secured it, gleefully stands upright. Bang! The table has rushed down upon him and crashed his head for him. He desires a piece of coal from the coal-box and to stoop for it he puts his hands...
...sentiment in the long run gets the better of humor. "Imagine at nearly three that mind of his ! I imagine it, you know, as a little house, a little honeycomb, made up of pearly white cells - glistening, dewy, lustrous, semitransparent, pearly pearly white cells: untrodden, untouched, and pure, oh pure beyond all conception of purity. Imagine by contrast with it the honeycomb house of a long-used mind, the mind of one past middle-age, and you will realize how pure and white and glistening and untouched it is. Imagine the trodden, trampled, often miry footpaths, (no, thought-paths...
...Well that cleans that up," came back Groucho, and so the interview began. The brothers, casting off their stage characteristics, but still sprinkling humor in their remarks, freely talked of their lives and their views on the theatre Strangely enough, the head spokesman was Chico, of the inimitable Italian accent, the oldest of the four...
...Marden and his non-legionaire friends join the Legion and lend it their matured thought, their striking dignity and their intense respectability. They cannot destroy entirely the sense of humor that is characteristic of legionaires, and they will learn, among other things, that the Legion has kept faith with the disabled veteran and his dependents, that in its more than 10,000 posts it is giving unselfish aid to communities, states and nation, and that it is a mighty patriotic force that has served and will continue to serve this country well...