Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Irish heroine starts as a poor newsgirl under the Brooklyn Bridge. She ends up wife and heir to the Morgan millions. This simple tale is unfolded amid a frenzy of dancing, rather unimpressive music, vast displays of color and a sprinkling of humor. Thousands of the public flocked to Little Nellie Kelly; the same thousands will doubtless jam the benches of the Liberty Theatre to enjoy the upward curve of Rosie's fortune...
...last of the Dowse Institute lectures on "St. Paul" in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight. His subject will be "The Love of Christ." Dr. Glover's powers as a historian, his compendious knowledge of the early Christian Church, and the simplicity, force, and the quiet humor of his style have upheld in this series the high standard which the Dowse Institute lectures have maintained since their establishment...
...another of these figures, all too few, who add both humanity and distinction to the American literary scene -and who add wholesomeness mixed with a sense of humor, to the American Credo...
...York Tribune: "The characters are drawn with a somewhat stark irony, precipitating as much pathos as humor...
...basis of ability and experience. No effective reform, however, can be instituted until Congressmen realize the value of a trained diplomatic service. Perhaps the failure of the Versailles treaty will point the moral, for it was definitely a pact written by politicians who had to arrange the provisions to humor their constituencies. The first improvement should be the raising of diplomats' salaries to the point where other than millionaires can accept the post of ambassador. Until then the "brilliant but poor" college man cannot enter the service; nor will the United States be served by an efficient and experienced body...