Word: humorists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Grover Thurber, Doctor of Humane Letters," intoned the president of Williams College, "cartoonist, playwright, foremost humorist of our day and nation, he has brought to a troubled America the priceless gift of laughter...
James Thurber, humorist L.H.D...
There may be some doubt that Stephen Potter is an O.K.-humorist, or that Pottering will become a major pastime in the U.S. Or, it may be necessary to develop some Counterpotters. Cogg-Willoughby, an experienced anti-humor player, might very well say: "Of course, what has gone out of our lives and our laughter is the fine simplicity of an Edward Lear." An American might do worse than to remark quietly but firmly: "Rather heavily on the British side, don't you think...
Harold Clurman, the director, as well as the actors, has tried his best to save the play. But such annoyances as one-time humorist Donald Ogden Stewart's injection of gagged-up lines into serious, sometimes tragic, situations and his resort to melodrama in the final act make his new play something of an annoying experience...
...Louisville Courier-Journal asked, what could really be done by the free nations about Perón and La Prensa? In London, where meat-hungry Britons have tightened their belts while they dickered over the price of Argentine meat, Humorist A. P. Herbert wrote a doughty answer in the Sunday Graphic...