Word: humors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actor. Helen Lowell etches with acid the acrid mother-in-law. Regina Wallace and Juliette Crosby also give meritorious performances in a play that has a place in every home. George Kelly has written a more human document than his satire, The Torch Bearers. The play's constant humor gets under the vest...
...meet the rush of a civilization so much newer than himself, and with almost every invention he gets a half-hitch on progress and pulls himself up a few degrees to a more equal footing. The history of the world, the outline of science, digests of the world's humor, even the recent "Outline of Everything" show more or less the same tendency--the attempt to gain much in little. Even the newspapers cater to the general desire to understand all about the universe before breakfast. And the large reaction lurking in a cocktail, though sought by only the most...
Undernourishment in humor is partially atoned for by an agreeable score. An ample array of proficient principals adds considerably to the aggregate of amusement and a good supply of comely girls furnish a soothing back-ground for sensitive eyes...
...statement in your letter that this one-dollar bill "has the picture of the Pope of Rome and the rosary and other emblems of the Catholic order and faith" is wholly without foundation. Such statements touch my sense of humor. . . . As a Protestant myself, I deplore the circulation of these rumors, because they tend to arouse religious intolerance. . . . If there is any substantial num-ber of American citizens who believe this amusing but absurd story about the one-dollar greenback, what a field they would offer for Samson and his jawbone of an ass! In the Bible it is recorded...
...rapidity and daring he has caught them. Mr. Longfellow fils lends the dignity of the New England literary tradition to a group in no great danger of being considered restrained. Professor Lake and Professor Merriman both reflect deeply. Perhaps they are led by old loyalties to compare the organized humor of undergraduate England and America; to set the Lampoon over against the Isis of Oxford...