Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What is more to the point, it is written by a Scot whose prize stock is a dour sense of satirical nuance. Mr. Macdonnell disguises himself as Donald Cameron, relic of the World War, unemployed Highlander, prospective author of a "book about England." If the skeleton is cumbrous, if humor finds oblivion in an hospitable close, there is enough flaunting of kills to satisfy the average reader. For some mysterious reason, Mr. Christopher Morley was asked to write an introduction...
...business cycle, will take all the sections this year, as usual. Dr. Currie has his own theory of the business cycle, which to date is unrefuted, and which would instill intellectual curiosity into any but the most dead-headed undergraduate. He is a brilliant teacher with a sense of humor. In Economics 3, there is no qualitative discrepancy between lectures and classes...
...famed butterfly was to Painter James Mcneill Whistler. The motto: Who & What is Gertrude Stein? "Widely ridiculed and seldom enjoyed," she is one of the least-read and most-publicized writers of the day. Her incom- prehensible sentences, in which an infuriating glimmer of shrewd sense or subacid humor is sometimes discernible, have generated the spark for many a journalistic wisecrack; except to the adventurous few who have been hardy enough to read her in the original (and to some of those) she has the reputation of a pure nonsense writer. To the man-in-the-street...
What can the plain reader make of all this? If he is in a good humor he will doubtless laugh, but at what? Sober-sided Critic Edmund Wilson gives as his opinion that: "Miss Stein is trying to superinduce a state of mind in which the idea of the nation will seem silly, in which we shall be conscious of ourselves as creatures who do not lend themselves to that conception." Still puzzled, the plain reader dips into another Stein volume (Tender Buttons), to his astonishment brings up these...
...tyro at financial surveys is Lord MacMillan. Son of a Presbyterian parson, now 60, bald, gaunt, spectacled, with a mouthful of false teeth, he rose to eminence by Scotch frugality and toil through his profession, the law. Famed for his brilliant, resourceful mind, his shrewd humor, he is today Chairman of the Court of the University of London, a Peer, a member of Britain's Privy Council (Supreme HUGH PATTISOX MACMILLAN He repulsed a monstrous suggestion. Court). Heading commissions has been his forte: the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder in 1924, the Home Office Committee on Street...