Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months. Under its new owners it will become fatter, will be printed on heavier stock. Artist Alberto Vargas, who once painted the portraits of 25 glittering Ziegfeld showgirls in 25 days, will do the covers. Editor John C. Schemm hopes to have Club Fellow bursting with wit, humor, new gossip, sport. Douglas Brinkley. musicomedy skitster, cousin of Nell Brinkley who draws baby-faced beauties for Hearstpapers, will conduct a column of Broadway chitchat...
...when her real identity as a maid is discovered, she enters into the spirit of the rather vulgar domestic with equal zest. Reginald Owen as an authentic prince is thoroughly royal in the decadent sense of the word. He has his amours, his noblesse oblige, and a sense of humor that fits very well with the American conception of prince-lings on continuous leave. Alan Mowbray as Josef, the valet, is a thoroughly snobbish servant of the more malignant variety. The burden of the comedy rests on him and he carries off his part very well...
...great deal of his daring and added ability in the Eli series was due to some extra coaching that he got from "Tiny" Thompson the Bruins' star, during the Harvard-Bruins scrimmage.... Charlie Cunningham was named on the first. All-American hockey team that the sporting editor of "College Humor" picked. Giddens received honorable mention on this team also.... In the University swimming meet held in the new pool yesterday Harvard's hope for a formidable team next year received considerable impetus when Benton Woods, a Freshman, won the 100-yard free-style in just one second slower than...
Last week his younger brother, Headmaster Horace Dutton Taft of Taft School (Watertown, Conn.), a brother tall, thin and angular but full of the Taft good-humor, produced a private letter William Howard Taft had written just after Herbert Hoover's election, to Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist, militant dry. Headmaster Taft explained he was offering this evidence to offset all erroneous interpretations of his brother's position on Prohibition...
...Judged by the standards of the artist, the Saturday Evening Post is clearly a sickening, a nauseating mess of hypocrisy and vulgarity. What I should like to emphasize, however, is simply this: to judge the Saturday Evening Post by such standards betrays two things: an astonishing lack of humor and an equally astonishing ignorance about the United States...