Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allow me to say that, as a student of my fellow countrymen, I should greatly like to see a compilation of the statistics resulting from your study. It has been my plan to write a book some day, classifying the citizens of our country according to their sense of humor. Do not misunderstand me when I declare that TIME'S sense of humor is utterly unique in my experience. Your coupon was a prize example of it. I should never suggest that your readers are primarily attracted by your sense of humor, for of course your intent and achievements...
...this solemn hour of intercollegiate "hate," the shaken soul finds comfort in that always calm old friend, the dictionary. "Lampoon" comes from "lampoons," let us drink. Liquor in Cambridge seems to have degenerated. Lampy's ancient humor has become mere billingsgate. Hollis Holworthy, that sometime mirror of correctness and savoir faire, has gone "mucker." To bedaub guests with insult was worthy of that curious taste. When one remembers such urbane Lampooners as the distinguished lawyer and sometime Ambassador who wrote "Rollo's Journey to Cambridge," one is surprised by the difference of the modern tone. Such is the improving effect...
...this one of his "pleasant," plays, had taken advantage of every possible bit of humor--humor of the broadest sort. He doesn't smile at Raina's medieval fancy about the chivalrous knight who gallops up to the enemy on horseback and kills a hundred men with one stroke of its sword instead the laughs long and loud. In the preface the play he says: "I am not convinced that the world is only held together by force of unanimous, strenuous, eloquent, trumpet tongued lying;" and he goes on to make this statement more emphatic Everybody in the play...
...already complicated situation through the appearance of its 'Princeton game number'. A few of our readers had expected in this morning's Princetonian a reply to the Lampoon. There will, of course, be no such reply. The Lampoon speaks not for, but against itself. About it and its humor we have nothing to say, except to inquire whether that periodical reflects as it purports to do, the sentiment of the majority of Harvard's adherents. Princeton undergraduates prefer to believe that it does not--but they want definite assurance to that effect...
...slap-stick style, with stock characters and stereo typed jokes. Gozzi broke from this familiar fashion, and while he kept most of the stock characters, like Harlequin and Pantaloon, he wove around them a romantic story, taken from the Arabian Nights and embellished with a good deal of humor not entirely of the slapstick variety. His work is in some sense the flower of the Comedie del Arte of early Italian drama, and it-will be interesting to see on the modern stage his combination of the old slapstick and the later romance...