Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Martin Lewis of Manhattan combines humor and beauty in etching characters at beaches, on roof gardens, in city streets. He was born in Australia, and left home at an early age because his family objected to his "wasting his time making pictures...
...subscribers in Italy will be .quietly destroyed by Il Duce's police. Newest thing in Italian journalism is a 16-page tabloid sheetlet published in a secret place, written by persons unknown, furtively distributed throughout Rome. Its name : Loud Speaker. Its object : to attack Dictator Benito Mussolini with humor, malice, intimate information, startling lies, as he has seldom before been attacked. Fascist officials have sharp orders to apprehend and silence Loud Speaker's perpetrators without delay or mercy, for ridicule is the one weapon no dictatorship can long withstand. Roman gossips, well aware of the breach over...
...trial at Paris last week was one Comrade Saveli Litvinov, round-faced Russian of ebullient-humor, who is charged with forging notes to a total value of more than $1,000,000. He claims to be the brother of Soviet Russia's Foreign Minister, moon-faced Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov...
...Oklahoman at Harvard", whose impressions of that ethereal personage known as the typical Harvard Man appears in today's CRIMSON, can necessarily perceive Him only through the glasses of Oklahoma. The Saturday Evening Post, College Humor, and sundry, other periodicals who spend some little amount of printer's ink from time to time worrying about this same Person are also colored by their own personal bias...
...scenery both beautiful and absurd. But he need not have made the tale of love and hate so limp. Passion never touches the audience, which is delighted whenever Comedians Laurel & Hardy and buttocks of the horses in their care intervene to provide raucous merriment. By the success of this humor Director Barrymore reveals his failure in the main chance. And Tibbett can never be called the singing Douglas Fairbanks until his way with both horses and women is at least the equal of his attendant clowns...