Word: humors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well as striking. The brilliant central figure, though it may predominate too complacently, shows that the Lampoon believes only in victory. The chief illustration, "Football under the New Rules," also will hold the attention. Here, however, the cartoonist seems to have forgotten his mission; carried away by his humor he derides the very rules that assure Harvard cleaner sport and a game. Of the many smaller drawings undoubtedly the best is that signed M. O. in monogram...
...German Universities," F. Paulsen; "The House of a Thousand Candles," M. Nicholson; "Joseph Jefferson," F. Wilson; "Municipal Ownership in Great Britain," H. R. Meyer '92; "Panama to Patagonia," C. M. Pepper; "Six Stars," N. Lloyd; "The Tower," M. T. Wright; "Women and Things," Mark Twain's Library of Humor...
...politics the terse campaign cry, the long campaign parade, and the eloquent speakers are all used to mislead people by numbers and effects. In advertising, numbers and bigness are used to convince people of excellence. Often our sense of humor instead of our reason is appealed to by advertisers, salesmen, and speakers...
...what would be said, and in the manner in which it would be said. His use of the English language was notable for its forcible and original choice of words, and the apt expression of those turns of thought which will always be associated with his keen sense of humor...
...only those with whom they daily associated, but also those whom they chanced to meet and who to them frequently remained almost unknown. The source of Dean Shaler's power of thus winning and holding men lay, I have always felt, in his bluff, great-hearted manliness, his humor, and his sympathy. He loved men and was in turn beloved. Like other men remarkably fertile in plans and suggestions, he found his judgments and conclusions often questioned--no man has been oftener disagreed with; but however much one might differ with him in opinion, one found that the bond...