Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes Harold L. Gibeaut (TIME, March 17) and says, says he, that it would be fatal if TIME lost its sense of humor...
...that I know that TIME is funny I'll not have to affront my family with profanity as I read it. I'll laugh if it kills me. I'd like, however, to recommend the Book of Revelation to Reader Gibeaut as a humorous story if TIME is funny. How he must laugh over the subtle humor in the small print in an insurance contract...
...Sense of Humor...
...over the Episcopal church across the street. In a nearby tourist lodging, a Philadelphia gangster murdered a woman with a brutality that diverted readers of Richmond newspapers for days. Rooming houses, chain stores, laundries, bakeries have crept in like the moral decay in a Glasgow novel. During Prohibition a humor-loving cop told Ellen Glasgow that her home was now in the heart of the bootlegging district. She said it was comforting to think that even a bootlegging district had a heart...
...tenant farms by a writer whose pen had the realistic flair of Rembrandt's paintbrush. Adapted for the stage in 1933 "Tobacco Road" broke all records for longevity and attendance. Its dialogue was delivered not only with Georgia drawl but also with Georgia poor-white, obscene explicitness. The pathetic humor of the play prodded the social conscience as well as the funny-bone. After seven years of audience accolades, reviewers, who once had passed it off as a pornographic potpourri, cautiously re-appraised it as "deservedly popular." "Tobacco Road," the most famous play since "Abic's Irish Rose...