Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four-page sheet of heavy, uncoated stock the size of a newspaper, printed in 5 wide columns. It carries no illustrations, thus far no advertising, sells for 10?. Its purpose: "... to offer a medium for the truly valuable and adventurous in thought." Its criteria: ''clarity, vigor, humor . . . real knowledge and a decided point of view." The idea was George Jean Nathan's. From his long experience with monthly magazines, notably Smart Set and American Mercury, he had found "that it is impossible to get enough good copy each month to fill. . . . [The editor] is only too happy...
Acclaimed as the last and greatest production of the master showman, Florenz Ziegfield, "Show Boat," which moved in at the Shubert Theatre last night, certainly did not disappoint the hopes of the most expectant. There is humor, there is a well-defined plot, there is love, hate, and pathos, all woven into one harmonious background of Jerome Kern's Music...
...sophisticate. At 17 she was a newspaper reporter, theatrical reviewer, cinema colyumist. She has married, divorced, remarried. Her novels Glitter, Young Man of Manhattan, Red-Headed Woman and her famed short story Night Club won her a reputation for knowing-her-way-about. With pardonable pride College Humor boasted recently that Author Brush, who ''rushes about the world with her eyes open." would write for it a monthly colyum, Manhattan Cocktail...
Last week in College Humor's November issue Colyumist Brush poured her first cocktail. It contained a description of Mrs. Ely Culbertson's eyebrows-"so thin they give her face a kind of naked-and- unashamed look'': of Queen Mary at Wimbledon-"Her hats exactly suit her. They're magnificent on her" of the Summer Casino at Monte Carlo with its floating revue-stage anchored offshore. But smart Katharine Brush let a few drops of amazingly stale beer get into her cocktail. She wrote...
Nobody expects humor in Author Tully's conscientiously grim works, but sometimes it is there. "She was beautiful. Her waist, open at the throat, showed the outline of her bosom, flushed pink and white...