Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means distinguished. The horseplay seems singularly oldfashioned. It is still funny. Lucky Sambo. Negro musical comedies tipped Manhattan off its tolerant balance some seasons back with Shuffle Along. Ever since then, there have been imitations. Of Lucky Sambo it is not necessary to beware. The music is fair, the humor humorously to type and the dancing uncontrollable. There is a plot about an oil well, and a man who remarks to his girl: "What did you do with that $4 I promised you last night...
...this day a certain Dean tells me with much gusto of the miracle I performed on his wheel while he finished dessert during the lunch hour with his family. I addressed envelopes and painted wagons. I sold the Lampoon for "Alex," and I wrote an article about the humor in "Mutt and Jeff" for the Boston American, I went without lunch sometimes and occasionally I wore two rubbers that belonged on the left foot. I rode an old bicycle to save carfare, for I hated debt and under no consideration could I bring myself to ask assistance from the loan...
There are two subjects of current humor which should henceforth be debarred from further mistreatment. These are, of course, any further correspondence of Mr. Irwin's prodigious Japanese Freshman, and the Whiskey Rebellion, which has already been afforded ample space in Mr. Donald Ogden Stewart's inimitable bit in the "Parody Outline of History," in which Mr. Stewart expounds the theory of this liqueured revolt in a very amusing imitation of the bedtime story style of Thornton Burgess. All of which is very interesting but has little to do with the Lampoon's recent offspring. The point in question...
...youth a wizened deaf old dame with 300,000 guilders. This difficulty called for more necromancy and repentance on the part of the greedy ancient. Mr. Barrymore impersonated this old villain and gave a competent and generally commendable interpretation. But, like the whole diversion, he seemed to lack the humor and the horror of reality...
...with a volley of rough pleasantries. When Herr Quidenius, President of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, arrived, late, flustered, to take his seat, the Count implored him to leave. "Why must you come to spoil my luck?" he yelled. Herr Quidenius blushed. The gallery guffawed. Player Meldon, sensing the humor of the situation, lost his morale, the next three sets, the match...