Word: humorous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much subtler the method so much more perfect the artistry from beginning to the end that the play seemed a different play. At the Saturday afternoon performance Mihail Tarkhanoff played Luka. It would be difficult to think of a more perfect performance of the part. He played him with humor, and yet with sympathy, played him so quietly and so humanly that desire for reform became more than understandable, and the sudden forgetfulness of him in the last act seemed all the more tragic. The Nastya of Alla Tarassova was made of less common clay than that of Pauline Lord...
...Saving Grace of humor is lacking in some very religious people, and thus absurd sects arise and flourish. Dr. Pollock, of Los Angeles, solemnly told radio fans last week that Zacharia 9:14 contains a prophecy of radio. (The passage reads: "And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go forth as the lightning.") He even more solemnly declared that the millenium is not far off, because the automobile has fulfilled the prophecy of Nahum 2:4. ("The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways; the appearance of them...
...addition to two quotations from poems, the opinion closes with such moral observations as: " Though justice sometimes treads with leaden feet, if need be she strikes with an iron hand. Verily, the wages of sin are death and sin pays its wages"; as well as such grim humor as: " There is no error appearing in the record, except the great error of the defendant in murdering his wife...
...west. Certainly Russia is cutting off her own nose, whether to spite her face or not. When she had at last been successful in wooing England into a trade agreement and since then has done everything possible to nullify its articles and to put England into a bad humor, she may expect to travel far before finding another commercial friend...
...their comedian and their dancing. This one, however, is brought out of mediocrity by Harry Delf, who tries to be funny--and succeeds. Just when the patient playgoer has begun to become bored, Harry Delf comes on the stage and laughter is restored once more. Slapstick and vaudeville humor it is, for the most part, but done in a very appealing...