Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that this is its first public presentation in America, the play is of special interest because of the brilliant success of Andreyev's "He Who Gets Slapped" as produced last season by the New York Theatre Guild. The new play bears the same stamp of merciless, sardonic humor in a thoroughly Russian vein, such as distinguished the other play. It is a drama of five scenes and a prologue...
Elsewhere in this number, humor comes more easily. The author of the casual lines entitled "By the Way" has done his work uncommonly well. In economy of expression he excells as well as in the quality of his matter. Likewise, "Typical Topics" and "Lampy's Question-Box" are well done in a vein familiar to readers of humorous columns in contemporary newspapers. Into the involved "Chart" the statistician has inserted sly fun, and also some commonplaceness. "The Freshman's Credo" is another bit of sophisticated writing which has avoided the fatal touch of routine. Much of the verse...
...customary observation from its basement window, announces that there will be early showers today, followed by fair weather with light westerly winds and a rising temperature. Hence we are in a quandary. What shall be the vein of the annual Class Day editorial? Shall it be wet humor or dry humor, shall we indulge in a little mud-slinging or merely raise a cloud of verbal dust? A question which our editorial minds, after three days' holiday, refused to answer. So we put on our raincoats and departed, leaving it to the office boy to decide which of the following...
...bunny suit", developed by excellent touches of characterization and woven into a narrative that so closely parallels real life that one finds one's self, more than once, experiencing the same reactions as the characters. The style is especially smooth flowing, and enlivened with sparkling glances of natural humor and keen appreciation of situation...
...packed between covers without exploding. Mr. raves has had the difficult problem of tolling in his own words, with frequent quotations and allusions, what the world was doing and what "Punch" thought about it. He has done it admirably and has by Mr. Punch's brilliant strokes of humor, wit, and insight made his country's history more readable than the much-praised efforts of countless weary archivists. Not only does he supply all necessary background, and explain what and why, without equivocation, "Punch" did but he supplies all this in a manner unobtrusive and so in keeping with...