Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks was one of the most influential leaders who ever went through Harvard. He was simple, kindly, with the keenest sense of humor. His power with the students was tremendous. Appleton Chapel was crowded when he spoke. So popular was he that after his death when $60,000 for a memorial statue was requested, over $100,000 was subscribed. Again in a few months another generous subscription was asked, as a result of which Phillips Brooks House was built...
...marvelous humor, wistful whimsicality and delicious irony of the text have been masterfully transferred into the music. Children enjoy most the passages which eloquently describe the "beamish boy's" conquest of the Jabberwock...
Every morning the first thing when he gets up--for the process of daily rising has settled on him like a habit--P. G. Wodehouse goes to the door and looks for the milk bottle which he left out for his daily supply of humor. Sometimes the humor is richer than other times. One morning not so long ago he found the humor in the bottle very rich indeed; solid cream; turn it upside down if you don't believe it. So then he sat down and took the cream out in spoonfuls and put it all into the book...
...known that he entered into undergraduate activity and argument with heat. Presently, he must have entered, too, into the life of the world, as his The Salamander bears witness. The F. Scott Fitzgerald of his generation, he has maintained his ability to report manners and customs with humor, combined with insight and decorum as his new novel Blue Blood* proves...
...enjoys its clubs and its life. He will impress you, when you chance to meet him, as a pleasant, somewhat detached gentleman who looks at life with the eyes of a reporter, yet lives, himself?a most difficult feat, and one which those cursed with too much sense of humor cannot accomplish. Yet there is no denying Mr. Johnson's sense of humor ?witness The Varmint, The Tennessee Shad, the later Skippy Bedelle...