Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sense of Humor...
According to the athletic records for 1936. Harvard ranks sixth in a nationwide survey conducted by College Humor's John R. Tunis '11 to determine what universities are "tops" in sports...
...Tovarich" is a delicious mixture of first-rate humor and first-rate drama. The situation of the old Russian aristocracy reduced to romantic humility is saved from triteness by the simple addition of four billion francs, entrusted by the old tsar to the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna and her consort, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff, to be delivered to the new tsar whenever he should ascend the imperial throne...
...very simple-minded, but none the less effective what with its thick coat of humor and its exuberant heroic pair, who find life "so beautiful...
...rigors of studying and even to make more digestible some of the dining hall meals. Dr. Bock and his associates are in full accord with keeping their undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here, and the Department is justified in taking every possible step to apprehend the guilty parties and to punish them severly. In short, funny ha-ha is welcome, necessary; funny peculiar is taboo...