Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reading is comprehensive and Buck's lectures good. With Professor Morison's personality History 60 is a delight for the American specialist; last year Nettels was very good. History 62a gives an economic approach to America. The most important course to the American concentrator is 63; although his humor is pleasant. Professor Schlesinger's lectures are on the whole dull. Most of the reading, especially the literary aspect, is antiquated and superficial; the marking of hour exams is felt to be unfair because too much material is wanted in a small amount of time. Complete reorganization, perhaps on a topical...
...trend toward mysticism, which expressed itself in three smash hits (Our Town, Shadow and Substance, On Borrowed Time) as well as in some lesser fry. But all these plays, warmed by humor or pricked by wit, were far removed from the solemn fudge of the Servant in the House era, made neither God nor Death embarrassing. On Borrowed Time, though pleasant, was very likely the most overrated play of the season. But Our Town (the Pulitzer Prize play), despite a third act which got beyond its depth, squeezed so much honest feeling, poetry and humor into its first two acts...
...principal humor is supplied by the gentlemen of the society who attempt to correct this vice, but become involved in a doubtfully moral association with "a lady of leisure...
...were in themselves indications that the President was functioning in top form. Improved by: 1) his eight-day fishing trip, and 2) his confidence that Congress was again in a tractable frame of mind, he breezed through a week including everything from Hell to helium with complete finesse, good humor and enthusiasm...
...sense of humor. This is probably the most essential of all. A society reporter has to be able to laugh or she'll go nuts over the gyrations of society's lunatic fringe, its playboys, its glamor girls...