Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will Rogers is a credit to the American stage putting clean mind, brains, humor into a profession badly lacking such virtues. In 15 years I have never known him to be vulgar, insulting. Would I could say the same of TIME for three years...
...ideal citizen," reported the New York Times correspondent, diplomatically introducing Jumbo's rare philosophy and some of his "twinkling humor." Huge chested, hard as nails physically, Jumbo is fond of hunting, fishing, boxing. "Liquor isn't made to drink," he has said. "It's made to sell." No one has ever seen him down a glass of intoxicant. In the Jungle, Jumbo has taught the survival of the fittest. "If a man walks down the street with $100 in his pocket and some one knocks him over the head and takes it, that's his fault...
first English film of any importance ever to visit our shores has been released. It is a light hearted story of the playful mistress of Charles II, full of character, atmosphere, humor. It is devoid of the dull wastes of costume and scenery usual in such endeavors. It tells a simple comedy simply and ends it with the true pathos of tragedy. Nell Gwyn is shown meeting the King outside Drury Lane. She rises through his patronage to a prominent place on the English stage. Through his favor she confounds the haughty females of the court. He dies with...
...denied by polish. See how he bows right and left, this gangling fellow, as lean as a lariat, in the old suit and the cracked shoes. His under lip protrudes like the point of a vulgar joke. His jaws move perpetually, up and down, chewing insult, chewing fancy, chewing humor, chewing gum. It is William Penn Adair Rogers, the diplomatist...
Topper - Thome Smith ( $2). Suburban humor of a high order. The facilities of TIME'S book department are at its readers' disposal...