Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chiefly the common sense of humor which guffaws at any joke smacking of anything alcoholic, which seizes on any case of drunkenness it may, and spreads the story as fast as it may, that is responsible. Perhaps this tendency reacts to make some few men proud beyond the average of their drunkenness, and so further encourages publicity. Certain it is that daily papers, as a rule, exaggerate the importance of the evil, in their attempt to cater to public taste.--The very fact that illicit liquor is so increasedly expensive prevents much drunkenness--but, it seems, Harvard, Yale and Princeton...
Miss Glasgow is one of the few realists in America who have succeeded in giving their work a touch of genuine poetry and quaintness of atmosphere. She knows thoroughly the towns and people of which she writes. She has studied their beauties as well as their peculiarities. Her rich humor and wistfulness give to her novels and stories a rare quality of humanity as well as quiet distinction...
...possible," says he, "I would have my school on a desert island in mid-Atlantic." He is trying to divest them of mere imitativeness, of the veneer and decadence of a routine civilization. As a result the children produce works of unspoiled vigor, naive insight and not a little humor. They are singularly untroubled by the isms and vagaries of modernist Art. There are fancy and fantasy, of course, but all with a highly personalized expression...
...Stage Guild, the newest dramatic organization of Boston, has followed up its initial success in "Ambush" with a most delightful presentation of "March Hares", by Harry. Wagstaff Gribble. "March Hares", as its title indicates, is a play of temperamentalists, of deadly serious extremists without the slightest saving spark of humor. The most extreme, most serious, most temperamental of them all is Geoffrey Wareham; the most dynamic, intense teacher of elocution who ever upset a household, The household, we might explain, consists of Mrs. Rodney, who tries hard to keep her equilibrium amid the general confusion her daughter Janet, the fiancee...
AREN'T WE ALL ?-Convincing and immensely diverting discussion of the inseparability of a sense of humor and successful matrimony. Cyril Maude chiefly concerned...