Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perpetrators of a hoax against Freshmen involving illegal use of the Hygiene Department, were roundly scored last night by Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Medicine, as carrying on a "pretty low form of humor...
...Hygiene Department, as the fact that this fear is being set up in the minds of Freshmen. I can't emphasize how bad a thing it is to do to fellows who are just geting adjusted to a new life at College. It's a pretty low form of humor...
...preference as a dramatic medium. And comedians are his favorite type of actors; comedy is the highest form of acting, so he says, for it's much harder to make an audience laugh than to make it cry or to thrill it. About the cleanliness of humor. Ed was serious, and leaned forward intently as he stated his views. "There's no achievement in making an audience laugh with a dirty or risque joke, because that joke depends merely upon its vulgar inferences. The true comedian, in my humble opinion, is a man who can make a gathering of people...
...Wynn thinks that philosophy could be taught better with humor. He's been working on a series of articles which he hopes to combine into a book called "The Philosophy of a Fool." In it, he wants to make philosophy easier to take by flavoring it with humor. He said, as an example, "Once somebody asked me why I was so generous with my money. I answered that I've no desire to be the richest man in the cemetery...
Unlike most comedians today, Ed Wynn writes a lot of his own lines. As a "student and analyzer" of humor he has developed his giggle, his high voice, his lisp. The show puts Ed's type of humor in effective contrast with the serious undercurrent of anti-war sentiment. On the one hand, in one act, a score of dazzling chorines dance gracefully with their backs always to the audience. They wear sweeping, transparent costumes. The music plays on, the dance becomes more graceful, the rhythm and movement speed up; finally the climax of the dance is reached and suddenly...