Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sympathize with the first part of this statement, but feel that the humor of the second should not pass unnoticed. Limiting consideration to one department the absurdity of the claim is evident to all those with memories of the quarters, equipment, and personnel of Biology I. More detailed and saddening points may be found is the recent article of Dr. Barbour in the Alumni Bulletin on "Biology at Harvard". This article, which contains considerable truth, would not lead one to think that Biology was being systematically built up here, bus rather that what remains is the remnant of a more...
...Newman's work is well and entertainingly written, with a wealth of scholarship and a shrewd insight. He is never carried away by his theme, always preserves a just sense of proportion. And his inspection of the great musician's personal idiosyncrasies is far from devoid of a sly humor...
...production. Wilda Bennett played the difficult title role when Hope Hampton, onetime cinema actress, was dismissed at the eleventh hour. Critics say that neither had the essential domination to pay the role its due. With the exception of Wanda Lyon, the remainder of the company was ill selected. The humor of the event was in the hands of Clare Kummer who, contrary to her custom, did a dull job. The scenery, however, was superb; and the show emerged as the most beautiful in Manhattan. Unfortunately beauty and melody cannot carry an operetta unassisted...
...substantial enough to reflect light, and why the timid creatures, shrinking to invisibility before human gaze, pose so graciously for the photographer. But who will explain the face of Battling Siki among the ethereal throng? Perhaps, the spirits were merely indulging in a low order of practical joke. Such humor, however, is scarcely worthy of men who have attained a more or less fixed station in life, or out of it: and any such explanation must be regarded as a feeble excuse for the somewhat chagrined Sketch...
Just what kind of a sense of humor is Mr. Frank advocating? Will that which he is advertising laugh heartily at a burlesque show, or will it curl up in agonies of mirth over one of those long articles in "Pauch"? The man who laughs at the misfortunes of others does not see much humor in his own mishaps, and a man who laughs at puns, and so-called "happy conceits" unfortunately laughs neither at his own nor other people's mishaps. If it is the truly desirable sense of humor, which Mr. Frank is advocating, it is one which...