Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin): "The truth is he himself showed such an example of kindly wisdom, such a combination of serious purpose, humanity and courtesy that the others soon had no thought in their minds save to labor with one common will for the success of all." His tact, humor and sincerity prompted a British novelist to say: "No American visiting this country has had his unfailing gift of saying the right thing at the right time...
...Divinity School, and a Milne enthusiast from the Green-Forest more widely known as Radcliffe gathered in Grays Hall yesterday afternoon to brew some Pooh which splattered on such diverse personalities as Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant dean of the College, and Glover Rueter '46, dean of a local humor society...
...eloquently poured out his feeling for the beautiful Roxane in another man's behalf, Actor ( Ferrer was often not romantic enough. But as the hot-blooded, proud-plumed Gascon who overworked his sword, he had the right brag and strut; he polished the wit and dug out the humor in this cleverest of swaggerers. Best of all, he suggested that self-dramatizing streak in Cyrano that gives a wry pleasure to his frustrations - and that gives the play its gill of psychology as well as its hogshead of sentiment...
While the writing lacks direction and in the final analysis seems to have gotten nowhere, the failure in impact is amply compensated by uproarious dialogue and a certain wackiness which can only be described as "Anita Loos." Tops in froth, Miss Loos drives her sharp-edged, relevant humor home with a vengeance. Whether a theme can be detected in the midst of it all is moot. You may not know what it is all about when the shooting stops, but you'll know you liked...
Occasionally, like most debunkers, Author Evans loses his sense of humor (as in his stern "exposure" of the egotism of mother birds). But in the main The Natural History of Nonsense is fit to turn the hair of a woolly caterpillar white overnight...