Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anti-Humor...
Sirs: I note in TIME for June 13, 1927, that Reader A. B. Maloire, Chehalis, Wash., is of the opinion that "More Humor" would not be amiss in your magazine. I believe, as I am sure many others of your readers believe, that we buy TIME primarily and principally for the news it gives us, in the way it is given to us, and not for amusement. If Reader Maloire wants humor, there arc plenty of magazines which devote themselves in part, or in whole, to humor. Let him read the humor magazines and leave our newsmagazine...
Author "Henry Thomas" is a learned publisher disporting himself with the anonymity so necessary for successful indiscretions in his native Boston. His humor runs sooner to dubious epigrams than to clever psychology and his wit limps much of the way. But what he does not know about ancient Rome he invents neatly. Readers with a weakness for scandal, however frail, will applaud his effort to do with Cleopatra what Professor Erskine did for Helen of Troy...
...happy to take advantage of this occasion to say a word with reference to the presidential succession. . . In the three years since he joined our teaching force there has been one of our colleagues. He is a scholar of the first rank, a man of strong, true character, with humor, vision and a deep spiritual, nature. He will be a wise administrator, fitting with exceptional adaptation into the traditions of our college. I predict for his leadership a success in keeping with that of the best of his predecessors...
...this latest collection of short stories, presented as "The Behind Legs of the Orse", he is true to this tradition of his. Lacking in the comic sense, without wit, he occasionally approaches humor with, even then, a fixed uncertainty of attack. As a humorist, Mr. Butler is a good director of the Flushing National Bank: as a short story writer, he is an excellent trout fisherman, a good poker player...