Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Humor," Professor Matthiessen, Harvard...
...American Humor," Professor Matthiessen, Harvard...
...bits of dialogue were transposed from "The Front Page" to the stage of the Howard Athenaeum, that venerable institution would be closed not for just a month, but always. From this we might draw a reaffirmation of the proverb "there's a time and place for everything." Primitive reportorial humor is just as acceptable in a newspaper play as hard swearing was in the dugout in "What Price Glory," as bed-room skits in a musical comedy, or scenes from a Turkish bath in Scollay Square; but each in its own place...
...authority have decided that in lieu of the vanished pomps of yesteryear, the public is at least entitled to a few good belly laughs and for this reason are relaxing their vigil over our entertainment. If we can't afford to be decadent we can at least have our humor more rudimentary. There are abounding proofs that standards are becoming more liberalized. "Hot Pepper," a McLaglon-Lowe comedy coming to the University Theatre in the near future, is a good case in point...
Appealing primarily to a Freshman sense of humor a poll to discover the Harvard's Master Hat was inaugurated yesterday by the Harvard Lampoon, humourous undergraduate publication, in connection with a Boston department store...