Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From College Humor's offices in Chicago's North La Salle street last week issued three breathless announcements...
...College Humor, having reduced its price from 35¢ to 25¢ with the August issue, was reducing advertising rates...
...College Humor clung to the 35¢ price in the face of the Depression long after Cosmopolitan came down. Although Cosmopolitan's circulation rose only 20,000 with the price cut, College Humor was forced to follow suit. Its own circulation, which on some issues had soared as high as 350,000, dropped to an average of 180,000 last year. In December it was 142,000. Two prime reasons:1) College students, with trouble enough paying school bills, hesitate to spend the price of a meal for magazine amusement; 2) Ballyhoo, at 15¢ made deep inroads...
Broadway knew "Flo" Ziegfeld for his temperament, his lavishness, his lack of humor, his publicity-madness. Broadway liked him nonetheless. Since the 1890's his short figure, his broad, pink face, thick nose and sharp eyes had been familiar to theatregoers. But he never let the public forget that his father had founded the Chicago Musical College, that his second job ?his first was with Buffalo Bill's show? was that of manager of the college. In 1892 he went to Europe to get orchestras for the Chicago World's Fair. On their failing, he went to New York...
...Nick, the 800-lb. blue gnu in Detroit's zoological park, is a bad actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus...