Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amends is for us to resolve in the future to be as fair as we were up to the time of this unfortunate article. . . ." Has your resolution of March 24, 1925, been forgotten? Apparently, for TIME in its issue of Jan. 3, has turned back to the would-be humor about the Negro of 30 years ago. For, in telling of the ejection of Mrs. Blanche S. Brookins, a colored woman of culture and intelligence and an interstate passenger, from a Pullman car in Florida, TIME says: "They (the passengers) heard one Blanche S. Brookins, Negress, snorting and scolding...
There was oratory, humor, poetry, vituperation and blatherskitism in Congress last week. Most of it was directed against President Coolidge's and Secretary Kellogg's policy in Nicaragua and Mexico. The Administration read about it, no doubt: but he'd stubbornly to its own ideas on U. S. foreign policy. Could the following representatives of the people have spoken in vain...
...Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia), the Burges Johnson (late of Vassar), of Harvard. The amazingly flexible voice, its sympathies and humor its clarity, expression and power of creating reality out of written words, bespeaks "Copey" as not only a most popular and learned professor but a great master as well of that most difficult of arts, reading aloud...
...songs sold at the door. As for the cast, Patti Harrold, dainty and unstudied, makes a charming heroine; Robert Armstrong, obviously out of place in musical comedy, a not-so-good hero. George Meeker, Edward Allen, and Frank Beaston, as Tom, Dick, and Harry, furnish the bulk of the humor, which depends more on their own antics than the rather weak book. Mr. Beaston especially stands...
...average Lampoon of this year compares more than favorably with the national humorous weeklies. It seems unbelievable that the Boston number should have caused offence. If it did if is a good proof that some of the residents of the Back Bay were much in need of hearing a little humor at their expense...