Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bobby Clark, with his spectacles painted on his face, his trick cane and cigar, amuses those who think that the mock-pompous delivery of big words is funny. He reaches another sense of humor by announcing, before playing the piccolo: "There are only a few of us left." His partner, as usual, is the almost completely silent Paul McCullough, who is impelled by Mr. Clark's incessant talk to bury his head in a desk drawer ("Just getting a breath of fresh air"). These buffoons and Doris Carson, a very personable girl whose adroitness as a tap dancer...
Shubert "Pleasuer Bound". Revue with lots of humor of a not too brain-testing order...
...characteristics, Bliss Perry is best known for his literary commentaries and his skill as an angler. Even during the ten years that he was breathing the breath of life into the Atlantic Monthly, flavoring it with humor, human interest and gentle irony, he did not forego fishing or writing about it. Every complete angler is familiar with his quixotic essay "Fishing With A Worm," a stirring defense of the practice...
...without its moments of humor. One of the most revered traditions of these United States, and one that stands aloof from lobbyist mud slinging and presidential scandals, is the belief that the Supreme Court, like older and wiser vestiges of autocracy, can do no wrong. The citizens of tomorrow, the backbone around which the nation will be built, have shared this belief in full innocence of the ways of men and morals. When the Volstead Act was declared no infringement of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Young America wavered a moment in doubt. And then in the most...
...latest manifestation in this field, which has taken the form of a society for the protection of scrubwomen, may or may not be funny, depending largely on the age of the observer and the particular type of humor which he most enjoys. But it is apparent even for those with the most liberal appreciation of a joke, that the effort has received far more publicity than it merits. For some reason, during the entire scrub-women episode the authorities have been in an acute condition of nervous excitement, and now have gone to the trouble of making a statement...