Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the pens of two English humor lie come these burlesque and some. times not unamusing remarks on business and the law. Mark Spade's little book discusses efficiently, production, distribution and allied topics under the head of running a bassoon factory in separate chapters, each (in the best and most ancient Punch tradition) with a mangled quotation from Shakspere as its introduction. A. P. Herbert has made a collection of strange and unusual law-cases involving outworn precedents and statutes, which are often ridiculously funny and usually point a good moral. Herbert's first case is the funniest...
Until recent publication of your fascinating "Dodo" articles I credited your magazine with average honest reporting. I now can pity the unfortunate individual who is not gifted with a sense of humor. I managed to get a good laugh, which might have been heartier if the situation were not so serious, in spite of the fact that there are not two accurate sentences in your entire first five paragraphs as published in TIME, Aug. 24, entitled "Dodo's Price...
...this mix-up got under way, the shadowy dwellers of the underworld began to appear. Misshapen, grotesque, these subterranean beings range from a philosophic ink salesman to thieves, ham actors, pool sharks, narcotic addicts, bartenders, shyster lawyers, all alike in their casual disloyalty, bitter humor, and command of tough talk. Pete faces a villainous environment with all the breezy self-confidence of the hero of a James Cagney melodrama, eventually licks it. But readers are likely to find Author Mclntyre's picture of the Philadelphia underworld too one-sided to be credible, and Pete's final triumph...
...fused into a program that made sense or symmetry. With The People, Yes, he comes close to doing so, and the book narrowly misses a place with the best of U. S. poetry. Written with a deceptive informality, packed with native phrases and examples of fresh, unstudied, lower-class humor, it succeeds in making "the people" a hero worth a poet's tribute...
...examples of native folklore that range from Ford jokes to the classic rural replies to smart city salesmen, from variations on "No Credit" signs to examples of the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. The first sections of The People, Yes deal with the poetry and sardonic humor of the people: The old-timer on the desert was gray and grizzled with ever seeing the sun: "For myself I don't care whether it rains...