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Word: humorously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never forgive them for making me mortal while reserving immortality for themselves. If they can look down upon me and laugh at my helplessness, I will show them that I, too, can laugh at myself. For together with my mortality, they have also given me a sense of humor. Otherwise I should have gone mad." Having read this and similar passages, the reader also is pleased that he has a sense of humor, for many are the possibilities of his going mad while reading the volume...

Author: By R. A. Stout, | Title: Polished Wit--Men of Letter and Politics | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

Films of those members of the University who qualified in the screen tests lately conducted by College Humor and the First National Picture Corporation will be shown at the University Theatre for four days, beginning Monday, according to an announcement make last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Screen Test Films Shown | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

STARTLING in the wrong direction necessitates an immediate right about face or a long journey and a difficult one across sterile fields. Ellis Parker Butler wrote "Pigs Is Pigs", a concession to a tasteless whim, and has continued along that road of supposed humor ever since...

Author: By Donald Gibbs, | Title: Student Poetry From Abroad | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

...Thursday night at the Central Square Theatre, the public will have the opportunity to see the films of those members of the University who qualified for the screen tests which were sponsored at Harvard by College Humor and the First National Picture Corporation, it was announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO SHOW SCREEN TESTS AT CENTRAL SQUARE THEATRE | 6/14/1927 | See Source »

Communist Cachin, lacking a sense of humor, called a meeting of Communist leaders in Paris. There a dozen or more speakers breathed defiance, typically as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Invited to Jail | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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