Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cried Editor Hanna: ". . . Did any of you ever remotely think that the day might come when the Government would try to license newspapers as General Johnson proposed? . . . General Johnson was quoted as saying last week that it was ghastly humor for a Wall Street publication to point out how NRA has failed in the small communities. If the day has come when it is 'ghastly humor' for the Press to try to get the truth about the acts of its elected and appointed officials be fore the people, you just know that Democracy...
...Steeplejack" is attempting to be practical about the whole of undergraduate life. Last spring the senior governing body, Palaeopitus, expressed the prevailing dislike of a phlegmatic campus by reviving Freshman Rules and similar kid stuff, which had formerly been tossed aside with raccoon coats in the days when "College Humor" was starting to slip. Revival was all right, but a lot of Seniors who knew the score, distrusted Palaeopitus's typical means of reviving. Hence "Steeplejack", a spearhead of no deceptive, mature revival of interest. The campus is sick of some of the labels applied in order to clarify...
...poetry, which is not noticeably drenched in California's private sun. A gloomy poet if there ever was one. and like most moderns much possessed by death. Jeffers seems even to his enthusiasts like his description of the mountain coast he inhabits : . . . precipitous, dark-natured, beautiful; without humor, without ever...
Whether all these kind suggestions of the comedians are appreciated or not, there is one professor from Harvard that liked one of their shows so well that he went back stage and said, "I like your humor because I don't have to think to get the point." The Colonel and Budd were naturally pleased with this statement as that is their purpose as comedians, but what does it make the professor...
...Science of General Psychology," by Wheeler, a good and solid book, of some six-hundred pages, fitted with two indices, charmingly adapted to the pose of earnest endeavor. But somehow, as his finger ran down the index, it wavered, passed "Vision, 379-398," and paused only be fore "Vitreous Humor, 382." Vitreous Humor turned out not at all funny, but Helen herself was never more seductive than the index to Wheeler's "Science of Psychology." The subtle poison permeated the Vagabond's veins, and he found himself choosing from the shelf "The Mentality of Apes." By degrees this enticed...