Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taft's four years in the White House were not happy ones. Mrs. Taft was an invalid. He lost control of Congress at midterm. Roosevelt turned viciously upon him. But, withal, he kept his good humor, jested about going on a diet as he ate his customary White House breakfast of two oranges, a 12 oz. steak, creamy, sugary coffee, toast thick with butter...
...apples, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, other ingredients of a typical New England boiled dinner, throughout the Cherry Sisters appearance. In every town that the Cherry Sisters played, it was an invariable custom for the editor of the local paper to review their act with a column and a half of humor, satire, parody and biting sarcasm...
...begins to seem as if he had never been apprised of a husband's obligations. There is a quarrel, but several shots of Scotch suffice to break the mother-fixation and the play ends with enlightenment in the offing. There is a great deal to be said for the humorous treatment of modern psychology. But here the humor is not half so subtle as the pathological dilemma used as its basis. Jefferson de Angelis is amusing as the lawyer who realizes that liquor has always been an aid to the bashful...
Yesterday's "event" is hardly worth getting worked up over, but it would be inconsiderate not to point out to the editors of College Humor the dubious value of the stunt they perpetrated...
...over. Forty years is a long time in the changing fashions of the stage: time has left de Koven's music untouched, but has been less kind to the book, and only by the most violent efforts can William Danforth as the Sheriff extract an adequate amount of humor from his part...