Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because their humor is "non-Aryan" and therefore not officially funny, Rome's Fascist newspaper Il Tevere urged all good Italians to boycott films showing Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Brothers and the Marx Brothers. Making a big muscle, Il Tevere added: "The Marx Brothers are only a big bluff...
...Advocate has decided to enter the plebiscite field, it was learned last night, as its officers planned an extensive vote on the "Harvard City" proposal. Meanwhile another local organization, the Harvard branch of the Young Communists, felt that "the misplaced humor of the Harvard Lampoon, by aggravating ill-feelings, only plays into the hands of the Cambridge politicians...
...stock subject is "Garden of the Moon." Even the angle adopted here, the creation of a fake Indian maharaja to help plug an unknown orchestra, is anything but the result of a brilliant inspiration. Fortunately, the action frequently moves at a fast and funny pace; but equally unfortunately, the humor is invariably of the delayed reaction type, where the butt of a wisecrack absorbs it five minutes later. Pat O'Brien, who makes a startling reversal of type by playing the part of a hard-boiled-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold, is the principal recommendation, although one wishes that...
...that's not the real purpose of this letter. I simply want to give you a chance to chuckle with me over the humor of having Mr. Mussolini cast himself in the role of "mediator," and how reminiscent it is of the old story about the three Scotchmen in church: when they were confronted with the collection plate only a few pews away and getting closer, one of them, with great presence of mind, fainted, and the other two carried...
Founder, publisher, editor and author of Air Facts is a lean, sandy-haired, 36-year-old Texan called Leighton Collins, who wages his safety crusade with dogged persistence and pointed homespun humor. Graduate of the University of the South (Sewanee), he spent a year at Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, then, ten years ago, learned to fly and started out to be a flying insurance man. Depression I drove him out of insurance, and he tried selling airplanes. For the next several years he flew from coast to coast, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande, piling...