Word: humorists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baruch was not amused, angrily wired Old Friend Ruark that their friendship was ended. Three days later, Humorist Ruark covered the course again, this time on hands & knees. "You see a man today," he wrote, "hip-deep in personal apology for one of those transgressions in judgment, I guess, where you hurt feelings unwittingly and people you love get mad at you. I undertook to kid [Baruch] a little and wound up crouched 'way back in his personal doghouse. I thought it exceedingly funny that somebody had snuck onto his properties . . . and started a liquor still ... I guess there...
...behavior pattern first synthesized by British Humorist Stephen Potter in his classic manual, subtitled "The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" (TIME, Sept...
American students will have the opportunity to study the humor of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden through a $4,500 donation by radio humorist Edgar Bergen to the American-Scandinavian Foundation, it was announced yesterday. Three scholarships have been established...
...Women and Dogs is the tentative title of the new movie to be produced solely from the drawings and writings of the gently misanthropic humorist...
Died. (Frank) Gelett Burgess, 85, gently satirical humorist, author of more than 30 books of verse and essays; of a heart attack; in Carmel, Calif. He first won fame for his jingle about a purple cow, which so caught the nation's fancy that he wrote another quatrain threatening death to the next man who recited The Purple Cow in his presence.* For more than half a century he kept a large audience laughing with his poems, literary satires and essays which he illustrated himself (Are You a Bromide?; Look Eleven Years Younger) and his word definitions (Burgess Unabridged...