Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still stoutly defending the old DOA view that the Government should perform any useful service that a group of citizens want. Said she: "These booklets are published to fill a need. When they get into the hands of people who do not need them, they lend themselves to the humor of incongruity...
...nation that enjoys humor, the U.S. gets mighty little in its fiction, and things are apt to get worse before they get better. That is enough to make book news of the latest volume by Robert Lewis Taylor, a profile writer for The New Yorker and, most recently, a biographer of W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill. The Bright Sands offers a good share of laughs, plus a steady run of chuckles and a warm feeling for the human race...
Aside from physical discomforts, Poonsters wanted a new building because they felt that more congenial surroundings would improve their writing. Though Lampoon humor had not yet become jaded, President Muir complained that a bleak atmosphere discouraged the editors. The Lampoon, he wrote during a campaign for donations, "tends to consist of one man who gets the paper out alone...
...Perry's neighbor for ten years, yesterday described him as far more than a teacher. "He has always seemed the kind of man one would choose as a representative of New England character and culture at its best a richly rounded and winning personality who combined literature and flashing, humor and mellow wisdom, urbanity and integrity...
...reputation for humor is at once Owen's greatest asset and a liability which he is most likely to deplore. Like the Hogarth engravings on his office walls, Owen's lectures are liberally sprinkled with bits of historical paraphernalia, each so interesting in itself that it is likely to detract from the whole. The "Crystal Palace" lecture, featuring lantern slides of a once famous Victorian exhibition, along with Owen's barbed asides, is an example. "I'm sorry it has developed into a kind of stunt or parlor trick. It really has a value in depicting the Victorian...