Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Historians of another century will record the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during the "World War," and its fall thereafter, according to humor. A Carlyle will call it a peculiarly malignant form of social indigestion, where avaricious scoundrels milked a large and ignorant public of great sums in "membership fees," in return for inflaming mass prejudices against
...volume will contain a variety of short spontaneous lyrics, and a long epic on the question of prohibition. The chief interest of the epic lies in M. Pillionnel's novel means of presentation, for he has combined the advantage of his French viewpoint with a keen sense of humor to portray prohibition as a saint fighting the evils of liquor after their long sway in pre-prohibition days...
...limitations of the stuff of humor are not merely those of subject matter. One may learn to countenance the abnormal interest shown by columnists, particularly of tabloid newspapers, in the crime of passion. Such writers are rarely credited with sober or mature thought on the evidence at hand. The penalty of an otherwise happy profession is that all ears are turned to the wisecrackery of the fool and none to the expressions of his opinion. There is thus a peculiarly personal application of the law of conservation of energy in the life of the humorist...
...manna let fall by heaven in the lean weeks between Christmas and Saint Patrick's Day, snarling at the generous hand. The consequences of such misinterpretation would not, however, be great. The only possible tragedy resulting would be that of one who took seriously what is clearly humor...
...services, and having had for several years in University Hall the benefit of her willing and skillful co-operation in connection with the various publications of the University, I wish to add my tribute to your own very discriminating and happy observations of her career at Harvard. The humor, no less than the substance, of your praise of her accuracy and dependability would have gratified her Irish soul. When the University Gazette was started we had a solemn understanding that it was to contain no mistakes, whether of fact or of typography: the Gazette could do no wrong...