Word: humorlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dodges go to Princeton, the Jameses to Amherst, the Stokeses to Yale, where Father Anson Phelps Stokes was University secretary for 22 years and where Son Ike was a Phi Beta Kappa in the Class of 1929. Tall, lean, cerebral, humorless, Ike Stokes later went to Harvard Law School, graduating in time for James McCauley Landis to take him to Washington as his secretary for a year. Now 29, he works in the SEC law department which let him "ghost" temporarily for Commissioner Mathews...
...average American, the average Englishman seems affected, patronizing, humorless, impolite, and funny. To him also the Englishman wears spats and carries an eyeglass; to him also he is slim and neatly dressed; yet the American, unlike the German, is not impressed by these elegancies; he considers them ridiculous; and thus, although he is frequently assured by his own politicians that the Englishman is, in fact, a cold-blooded imperialist who spends his time in jumping on the underdog, he does not take these accusations very seriously. . . . To him we appear as slightly comic figures. I am aware that, psychologically speaking...
Among U. S. literary groups, the writers who have settled in New Mexico have a reputation for being the most humorless of the lot. But in Witter Bynner New Mexico can claim at least one poet who knows and appreciates a joke, and who has the distinction of being the author of a major literary hoax. In 1916 when U. S. excitement over free verse, imagism, vorticism, and other strange movements was red hot. Author Bynner, in collaboration with Arthur Davison Ficke, dashed off a few nonsensical poems, signed them with a pseudonym, "Emanuel Morgan," declared them expressions...
...renegade. On Milton the poet he casts a keen professional eye, melting with reverence most often but sometimes, when he catches Milton sporting with a mediocre Muse, sparkling with contempt. To Milton the man he is bluffly antipathetic, regards him as the arch-heretic of an heretical age, a humorless megalomaniac...
With some trepidation lest I be thought humorless in bothering to comment on the CRIMSON editorial. Donal M. Sullivan...