Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business & professional" families. McCall's was runner-up with 9%; Ladies' Home Journal third, 7%. Among 702 "common and semiskilled labor" families, True Story topped the list with 4.8%. Among magazines for which only one subscriber was found: TIME, Vogue, Nation, College Humor...
Some faithful hearts hereabout must have gone pitapat last week. Dark rumors about the Harvard Lampoon were heard from Boston. It was said to be far from an prosperous as its highbred with its delicate humor, the felicity and urbanity of its occasional hoaxes, its sedulous devotion to the high standards set by its founders--such men as Judge Robert Grant, former Ambassador Stimson and Edward S. Martin--entitle it to be. Fortunately, those apprehensions were groundless...
...supposed confession from its president that it would have to shut up shop unless it got help. Especially affecting was the gravity with which "The Crime," as the wicked call it, shed tears over the thwarting of The Lampoon's efforts "to maintain a high standard of clean, wholesome humor." The Crime must be trying to hide its own financial difficulties by inventing some for The Lampoon. He quotes from a letter which he attributes to the business agent of The Crimson...
...regain solvency. If it doesn't, "the present crisis may well constitute a warning to other undergraduate publications." These mutual attributions of disaster may faintly indicate the loss that threatens the republic of letters if such precious manifestations of the undergraduate comic spirit are to vanish. In "college humor" there is a subtle, ethereal quality that differentiates it from all other brands. What, for example, could be sweeter, gentler, more Lamblike than the intimation of The Brown Jug, Brown University's jester, that the Holy Cross footballers dug their teeth into the corpuses of the Brunonian eleven? Evidently college education...
...Adam Yestreen, the young minister of the kirk, sets down the eerie happenings of his one and only winter there. A man with simple, homely ways, with speculations as to the strange death of one of his predecessors, with a great kindness for all, and a quaint sort of humor, he falls in love with Miss Julie Logan, that "long stalk of loveliness." Their few meetings have many of the elements of a dream about them, yet she seems very much to be of flesh and blood. But in the end we do not know whether she was a phantom...