Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME has no set of opinions to offer. Interested, it will report the debate under THE PRESS.-ED. Humor...
...have been a regular reader of TIME for several years, and although its abbreviated form of all topics is commendable, and its editorial policy unique to the average man, still there is one feature absent from your pages that the majority of American magazines have. I am referring to humor. Aside from all the serious matter that you print, I am sure that a humorous column would be an added asset to TIME, and I am herewith inclosing a sample copy of JEST AROUND THE CORNER, for consideration. It is submitted at your usual rates...
...which the rather unrepresentative and in fact unique undergraduate magazine, Isis, made reply: "Oxford University has become a Pinkerton academy* and we are children indeed." The authorities were accused of having overdeveloped their humor or behaved like the mistresses of a Victorian girl's school...
...always stands a fair chance of accomplishing very little and it is in this respect that the Amsterdam gathering is more closely related than at first appears to so many other groups which differ only in the end to be obtained. Reform, limited by sanity and a sense of humor is an essential in human relations but the incessant dinning and nagging about every little thing that strikes one's sense of the disagreeable does nothing but irritate. One wonders how many working days are lost annually by rheumatically minded people congregating to find something about which to do something...
From that time on, the clapping never ceased, for this latest of Artists and Models is a good show no matter how many leaves are used. The Hoffman girls are talented; they fence, dance, sing, and climb ropes, artistically if to no good purpose. There is plenty of humor, most of it supplied by Phil Baker--he of the accordion...