Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon, indeed, has too long served the American public with clean humor and clean advertising with all those fundamental forces in salient satire and irresistible irony to die uncherished and unwept. From coast to coast those who have followed Lample will mourn their departed leader. Life itself will be without a parent; Mother Advocate without a son. The entire nation will mourn this departed jester royal-this wanton wit and boisterous bard...
...State Board of Parole since 1915. Honors sit comfortably on his broad brow topped by his wavy grey hair. Fellows at the conference looked at him, saw a well-groomed personage, a man of round and cheery face. Those little wrinkles peeping behind his rimless eyeglasses were of good humor and of study, not of irascibility...
Moving-picture actors and actresses will be subject to the inconveniences of Lampy's humor when the "Photoplay" number issues forth from the bricked recesses of the witty building on April...
...India. The pointed spire of the Compound Church pricks a sky too old to mind such petty prodding, and the Reverend Alurid Wilberforce's proselyting pricks even less effectively the soverign sufficiency of heathenism and of life. Tragedy grimaces from the Inland Sea, tragedy, modified at intervals, by humor, satiric, satisfying. And when one sees the figure of the old preacher and priest. Alurid, pathetic in his own futility, planning the lives of his family and friends quite with out success, when one glimpses his wife, dying of cancer, slowly and with the help of a remorseless and unscientific...
...refereeing by Director Gregory La Cava allows Slagle, in a Pathe News exerpt, to double for Dix, and to run 80 yards for Yale against Harvard. If humor depends upon incongruity, this is a wow. A post-game celebration results in the wrecking of the Club Prado in accordance with the best Mack Sennett traditions. Quarterback Dexter and his backfield mates conquer the waiter's eleven, but are penalized 30 days, for unnecessary roughness by the superior blue jacket reserves. An accidental escape from jail follows, a hasty wedding, so that Dexter's stay in foreign waters...