Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kicked off the weekend. It was followed by the Tiger-Prince Dance, featuring the orchestra of Benny Goodman. Despite the steep admission charge of $10, over 1000 couples were expected to attend, mainly because there were few other things to do. The project, sponsored by the college paper and humor magazine, needed 1000 couples to break even...
...have a 40-hour week for a good newspaper reporter," says Mencken, "than you could for an archbishop." Those were the days "when an oldtime ice-wagon-driver city editor might come down in the morning with a hangover and fire a man simply because he was in bad humor." It was also an era when a pressagent was regarded as "a loathsome creature," suffering "a subtle corruption of the mind...
Conceits & Quiddities. The strain left deep marks on the character and writings of poor Charles Lamb. He drowned his sorrows in drink, diluted his tragedy with splashes of nervous, tense humor, indulged in "conceits and quiddities" that might grate on some modern sensibilities. His letters make better reading than the essays he wrote under the name of "Elia" (anagram for "A Lie"). This selection by T. S. Matthews, onetime managing editor of TIME, is shrewdly contrived to show why Lamb was not merely pitied for his sufferings but loved as well for his goodness. Indeed, the most remarkable thing about...
Other publications include a humor magazine, Highball--recently started after its predecessor was suppressed for lewdness--and a yearbook...
...Attempt at Humor...