Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until July 1, 1937 Victor Hall, assistant professor of Physiology at Stanford, gree of bathroom humor, (the W.C. was invented in 1592 by Sir John Harington, a godson of Queen Elizabeth, according to the staff of History 1) it is still in bad odor with arbiters of public taste such as Will Hays. For example, no glimpse was to be had of this delightful piece of furniture in the bathroom scenery of "Swing Time." With some pleasure and no fear this department takes pleasure in offering a copy of its composite picture of allRepublicannomineesforpublicofficeattheNovemberelections to anyone who reports a bona...
...Bathroom humor is very old. As to its age, there are two main hypotheses, that it is as old as the hills, and that it is as old as a trouser-clad culture. Advocates of the former theory might admit when pressed that if not as old as the hills it is as least as old as hills with bushes on them. Advocates of the latter theory would claim, if given half a chance, that no such thing existed in, say, Polynesia before the arrival of Captain Cook. But they probably would not have read "Coming of Age in Samoa...
...Bathroom Humor...
...Howard Hamlet is a delicate, sensitive youth, but with scracely a touch of the meloncholy usually associated with the Dane, Sober, self-contained, and introspective--Howard is all these, but with it all the thread of humor Shakespeare most certainly intended his Prince to have runs throughout this entire production. At times the wit is biting, at times it is gentle, and again there is a touch of rich whole-hearted merry-making. It seems almost as though Mr. Howard had determined to avoid the pit-fall John Gielgud's humorless characterization of Hamlet has apparently fallen into...
...write interminable reports to the Centre, were given a kindly hint by the Viceroy to ease up on this scrivening and get out on more camping trips among the people. "You may count upon my steady support," said Linlithgow, sounding as if he meant it, then added with wise humor: "For you District Officers it remains abundantly true that the tent is mightier than the pen." Indian journalists, accustomed like English journalists to official hauteur and snubs, imperceptibly warmed to a new Viceroy who said: "Like the rest of us, newspaper men cannot be expected to make bricks without straw...