Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flight, and Mr. Noble '88, also breathes Etheu Fugaces in a seven stanza "praise of folly." Mr. McCord '21, and Mr. Alger '22, not yet having felt the sentimental stimulus of a class reunion, shape their sketches in the more or less familiar mold of modern college humor...
...there is even now an audience for them. Any doubts on this subject were dispelled last night when Mme. Eva Gauthier sang to an audience that almost filled Jordan Hall at the same time Mary Garden was singing "Louise", in the Opera House. Mme. Gauthier showed a sense of humor, when, apologizing for her lateness in beginning the concert, she explained that she had been delayed in the crowd going to hear Mary Garden...
...York Herald commenced publication of a series of letters descriptive of life in Washington during the Roosevelt Administration and written by the late Major Archie Butt, military aid to the President. Said one letter: 'It was a pleasant afternoon. He [President Roosevelt] was in his best humor, and during the afternoon Longworth and his wife, Mr. Pinchot, the forester, and some others came in. The President had already ordered four mint juleps, but before they were served they had got up to eight. As each guest would arrive he would say to some one inside...
...question is one of approach rather than of godlessness. There is such a thing as primitive abject worship: there is such a thing as a sense of humor, and the two will clash as long as men are borer into this world. RICHARD RATUJE...
...Harry Lauder at the Harvard Union yesterday afternoon spoke on a subject that hundreds of men--warriors, statesmen, orators and authors--have touched on before. But he brought to his subject the pathos and the humor which are a part of his own make up, and this time the pathos was heightened by contrast with the humor. He spoke on relations personal and international...