Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Lampoon, whose curious conception of humor managed to precipitate the present state of armed new trality between Harvard and Princeton, has with astonishing ineptitude managed to revive the scrubwoman controversy just after the fund raised by a group of alumni to pay their back wages had succeeded in removing the matter from the field of, as the liberal journals call it, public discussion. It appears that the Lampoon has published a cartoon representing the scrubwomen as having a riotous spree on the proceeds of the money paid them at Christmas...
Such Cruel and heavy-footed humor needs no comment unless that supplied by Pope to the effect that "gentle Dulness ever loves a joke." But a reader of the Boston Transcript has made a comment which has some merit. The comment was that the offense of the Lampoon's editors was a natural consequence of the Harvard administration's "policy of aristocratic and contemptuous indifference toward a group of unfortunate workers." After all, a university administration which has been content to evade and becloud a plain issue like the requirements for scrubwomen's wages under the State...
...Author. Out of the mouths of Wrodehouse's babes-about-town. his sucklings that roar at you like any Anglo-Indian colonel, have emerged for many a year babblings that have made their author's name a trademark for this kind of humor. Wodehouse fans regard his lyrics for the Oh!-musicomedies (Oh, Boy, Oh, Lady, Lady! Oh, My Dear!) as best of their kind since the late Sir William Schwenk Gilbert's. Wodehouse once wrote five librettos at the same time, for shows that appeared simultaneously. Baldish, florid-faced, 49, he lives in London, but last...
...Ewing is simple in habits and tastes; sincere; intensely loyal; helpful to colleagues; possessing a subtle humor; a lover of competitive sports; tactful in the handling of men and opposing forces; scientifically resourceful and imaginative; optimistic always; idealistic in his belief in men; indulgent to a fault; having an unusual sense of fairness; scientifically aggressive and persistent; one who welcomes and encourages new avenues of approach to problems; a tireless worker; a severe but constructive critic; discriminating in his estimate of scientific contributions; a stimulating teacher; a forceful lecturer; an indefatigable contributor to scientific movements; a scholar; beloved by students...
...McGrath '31, captain of the University baseball team scored a home run in three of the five games played by the College Humor All-Star baseball team in Panama and Cuba during the Christmas vacation...