Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publication of unusual virility your article reporting the American Legion Convention was startlingly sterile (TIME, Oct. 20). Either none of your staff actually saw the orgy or they are all legionaries. Does it strike no spark from your terse sense of humor that tin-capped, be-goggled, middle-aged ''playboys of the western world" swarmed deliriously toward Boston to formally record in a solemn moment that they regretted the actions of local hoodlums? Coming here with one vibrant purpose, they fulfilled that purpose gloriously, overwhelmingly, only to then graciously hand all credit for the stunning victory...
Feet First (Paramount). To see Harold Lloyd hanging by his toes and fingernails, in attitudes of comic agony and terror, to the abutments of an office building above a busy city street is one of the most exciting things in the modern cinema. It is not, of course, humor that makes crowds roar and shriek as they watch him, but his antics inspire a contraction of the muscles of the diaphragm just as humor does, with the same vocal results. The skyscraper episodes in Feet First are more elaborate than in Safety Last, which he made seven years ago; there...
...escaped from the world into an asylum. So carefully, logically, adroitly has Feuchtwanger marshaled the army of his characters that their individual stories move together like an orderly procession; you seem to see the movement of a whole people. Author Feuchtwanger is as fond of Munich, of Bavarian kindliness, humor, beauty as he is bitter towards Bavarian stupidity, cruelty, grossness, injustice. If his individual portraits had been as sharply drawn, as compelling as the giant canvas as a whole. Success would have been a masterpiece indeed...
Francis Yeats-Brown liked Indians, so he was not unhappy to be sent to an Indian regiment (17th Cavalry, Indian Army). But his acquaintance with Indians and Indian culture educated him out of humor with Western civilization. "Very humbly and hopefully'' he went to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, there to sit at the feet of Theosophist Annie Besant, to see her youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid...
...stage was a pot de chambre. The chief distinction of Sisters of the Chorus, another theatrical attempt to romanticize the lives of thugs and their lady friends, is that just such a utilitarian object is within full view of about one-half of the audience, the play's humor springing largely from the fact that a bathroom opens on the principal scene. There is a good deal of tedious talk about the nefarious ethics and business conduct indigenous to "Broadway...