Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crescendo on adverbial advice. In all departments the author shows himself a thorough master of his subject and proves conclusively that for sheer lucidity and clarity nothing can equal manual gesticulation a la Jane Cowl. All of which fits in paradoxically with the fact that Mr. Thurber's humor is the product of delicate, well constructed prose seldom equaled by modern American comic writers...
...another time Albert is in his room, filling a shabby suitcase with little gifts for the girl he is to marry, but is interrupted by the arrival of the police. Here again is a trite situation, which becomes significant through deft and sympathetic handling. Nor is the movie without humor; a fight scene which might well have been heavy and conventional is a delightful parody. Most French, if not most effective, was the bed-room sequence, which the director handles with his tongue in his cheek...
...Henry Morton Robinson, writing in the March College Humor, maintains that those students who work their way through college fail to derive from their four undergraduate years the educational and cultural benefits which their fellow-students whose financial way is paved for them, enjoy. The working undergraduate is said to be forced to disperse his energies between his studies and his efforts to "work his way through," with the result that he is physically unable to meet the curricular requirements. He then, according to Mr. Robinson, has to fall back upon the mercy of his professors, who pass...
...throwing as a source of youthfully brutal humor* is the college scrubwoman, "goody," "biddy" or "P-lady." Harvard's scrubwomen became a cause célèbre in the winter of 1929 when the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission complained that Harvard had for nine years paid its Widener Library scrubwomen but 35¢ an hour, whereas the legal minimum wage was 37¢. The Treasurer of Harvard University appealed to the State Legislature, pleading that the women were given a 20-minute rest period, not docked for it. Last March, led by Corliss Lament, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, 52 Harvard...
...student was capable of equaling many of the professors proves little or nothing. It is true that some of the instructors laid themselves open to attack in trying to evade answering the test, but this is only a reflection on their moral courage or lack of a sense of humor, and not on their ability as professors...