Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French correspondent cabled on Derby Day one of those small, revealing anecdotes of His Majesty George V which British newsgatherers have not the humor to appreciate...
...Sinclair has obviously achieved fame. He has political enemies, a biographer, and an uncorrupted son. But has he a sense of humor...
Less than 40 years ago the Harvard "Lampoon" held undisputed sway in the field of college humor. With only one rival, the Columbia "Spectator", the wits from Mt. Auburn Street could boast a circulation and a reputation which was without equal. Then into the Cambridge jester's existence of placid dignity and lonely rule was suddenly hurled a disturbing, challenging bolt in the form of the first Princeton "Tiger...
...written to Governor Fuller by another gentleman interested in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, namely, one Chandler Hovey, stock-broker. On a day when college professors and men from the world of business meet to dedicate the new buildings of the School of Business Administration such maladroit cerebration loses its humor in its speciousness...
...been announced by the powers behind the recent motion picture tests at Harvard which were sponsored by College Humor, and the First National Picture Corporation that the men who qualified for the tests from Harvard will have an opportunity to see the films of themselves at the University and Olympia Theatres in the near future...