Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university undergraduate population of the U. S. is about 750,000. Add hundreds of thousands of high school youngsters and "townies" who want to talk and act like collegians, and you have a fertile circulation field for a collegiate magazine. The field was well tilled by College Humor which several years ago hit a circulation peak of 350,000. But circulation at 35? a copy could not survive hard times. It dwindled to 140,000 last year when College Humor, heavily burdened by overhead, fell into the hands of creditors who turned it over to a new publisher. Since then...
...definition of Gandhism as "goats milk, loin cloth, etc." is offered as a comic caricature, one can appreciate the writer's sense of humor. But if that is all he sincerely discovers in Gandhism, his state of mind is to be pitied. Gandhi would not resent being dubbed as a "renegade, philistine, etc," by his critie, for he would find himself in a distinguished company of many of the foremost communist leaders of yesterday, that may be joined by many more of today...
...final stamp of authority as an expert on the administration of criminal justice. Yet despite his insight into conditions, he declares: "I feel no call to remedy evils. I have not the slightest urge to be a reformer. Social workers make me very weary. They have no sense of humor." In 1923 he transferred as an associate professor of government to Columbia Uni- versity where he had got his Ph.D. five years before. In 1928 he was made a professor of public law. To the girls of Barnard College he taught government and politics in a humorous, informal way that...
...killed in the War. With the arrival of Prohibition, his best barrel-roller (Charles Bickford) turns 'legger. Hoffman (Jean Hersholt) patiently awaits the day when brewing will be legal again but by the time it arrives, he has lost most of his money and some of his good humor. When beer is finally legalized, gangsters shoot old Hoffman and it takes his son (Richard Arlen) and several friends to avenge the old man's death with tactics they learned in the Army. Somewhere in all this there may have been the germ of a potent picture...
...CRIMSON carries its stultifying adolescent humor to the point of simple bad taste when it attempts to deride (in what it perhaps considers subtle fashion) the activities of an organization which obviously is attempting to provide a medium for the expression of liberal student opinion on important questions of public policy...