Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original subject for these debates was changed a few weeks ago to "Resolved, That education is the curse of the present age." This subject was picked in accordance with the wish of the debaters of all three universities for a question with possibilities for an exercise of humor. After the debate the Coolidge prize of $100 will be awarded to that member of the debating teams who has shown the most ability in the preparations for the Triangular debates. Coach H. P. Sharp 1L. will pick the recipient of this prize...
...first half year; while the rest are merely new courses, not new modes of thought. There is no change as from summer to fail. And even were the April hours designed for some great need, they could hardly fill it while serving also as butts for general bad humor. What is half despised might well be cured or killed...
...months ago (TIME. Jan. 18). He came boldly. Withal in the back of his mind was memory of distress. On his previous visit in 1921 and 1922 the U. S. medical profession had thrown such obloquy over him that for a time his good humor became only a mask. He had come to repay with his surgical skill the protection and aid U. S. munificence had afforded Austrian War-emaciated children. His method of correcting congenital deformity of the hip was "bloodless," that is, he did not use the knife. His procedure was scientific, although it differed from that...
...what do I attribute the success of Charlot's Review in America? My explanation is that it is subtle and it is minute, and is sprinkled with good, wholesome humor. It is the best of recent revues, and appeals to the American love for something different...
...such that the local officers of the law must intervene to prevent the college from becoming a mere institution of corruption, action is truly imperative. This last publication of the Brockton Blimp is too much. It is fair to expect occasional dull spaces in the pages of any humorous paper. But when those spaces are filled with obscenity in lieu of the lacking wit it is high time to call a halt. For years the tradition of Brockton periodicals has been--"Humor and news, clean, clear, and clever." And now the Blimp takes it upon itself to break Brookton tradition...