Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Service. . . . You must keep the temperament of the women and the spirit of the pilgrimage in mind. Many will be hysterical under the slightest provocation. You must be ready to meet any unusual condition. . . . You must exercise patience and forebearance and you must possess a sense of humor. If you are not a diplomat now, you will...
...College Humor," in conjunction with the publishing house of Doubleday and Doran, has made announcement of its second prize college novel contest, the first of which was held this year. The magazine and the editors of the publishing concern are offering a prize of $3,000 for the best novel on college life written by an undergraduate or a graduate of not more than one year...
...story may or may not be an autobiography but it must deal with college life and college people; it must be a study of contemporary college life. The prize offered covers rights to serialize the story in "College Humor," publication rights and royalties. Motion picture and dramatic rights are reserved for the author. Moreover, both the book and the magazine publishers reserve the right to publish either in book or serial form, any of the novels submitted in the contest...
...twist, he gets the girl. Some of William Haines's antics seem dictated less by fantasy than by pathology, but the consciousness that in actual life any one of his little jokes would be reason enough for his being shot or locked up, stimulates rather than hinders the humor. Best shots: an unnamed player as a frightened waiter who is ordered by his employer to make a noise like a cat when addressing a patron who is supposed to be crazy; Haines selling bonds to a spinster...
...comic twist, he gets the girl. Some of William Haines's antics seem dictated less by fantasy than by pathology, but the consciousness that in actual life any one of his little jokes would be reason enough for his being shot or locked up, stimulates rather than hinders the humor. Best shots: an unnamed player as a frightened waiter who is ordered by his employer to make a noise like a cat when addressing a patron who is supposed to be crazy; Haines selling bonds to a spinster...